Nationality American Role Short story writer Occupation short story writer Home town Lexington | Partner(s) Philip Holland Books And give you peace Name Jessica Treadway | |
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Born 1961 Albany, New York Alma mater State University of New York at Albany Notable work Please Come Back To Me, short stories, University of Georgia Press, October 2010
Absent Without Leave, a collection of stories, Delphinium Books/Simon & Schuster, 1992
And Give You Peace, a novel, Graywolf Press, 2000 Education Boston University, University at Albany, SUNY Awards John C. Zacharis First Book Award | ||
Jessica Treadway (born 1961 Albany, New York) is an American short story writer.
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Life
She was raised in Albany, New York. She graduated from the State University of New York at Albany, and from Boston University, with an MA. She worked as a reporter for United Press International. She held a fellowship at the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College, and taught at Tufts University. She teaches at Emerson College.
Her fiction has been published in The Atlantic, Ploughshares, The Hudson Review, Glimmer Train, AGNI, Five Points.
She wrote the libretto for composer Ellen Bender’s opera after Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Marble Faun, and served as literary co-translator of “A Crowning Experience” by Kostiantyn Moskalets in From Three Worlds: New Writing From the Ukraine. She is on the Board of Directors of PEN-New England.
She lives in Lexington, Massachusetts with her husband, Philip Holland.