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About Jessica Treadway

Author Jessica Treadway

Jessica Treadway - Quick Facts

  • Favorite Activity (not related to writing): Tennis
  • Favorite place to go when thinking through a plot issue or book idea: The woods next to my house.
  • Favorite Author: Can’t pick just one, there are so many!
  • Favorite Books: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, The Selected Stories of Andre Dubus, They Came Like Swallows
  • Favorite Movie: Three Days of the Condor
  • Favorite Pastime: Aside from writing: tennis and hanging out with my 7-year-old friend August.
  • Favorite Speech and why: The Gettysburg Address. I memorized it as a kid and still recite it to myself when I can’t fall asleep. Its cadences and the power of the writing are mesmerizing.
  • What do you most like about being an author: Being able to inhabit other people, even if they are ones I’ve created myself.

Interesting Highlights

Do you teach on a specific topic?

I teach fiction workshops, sometimes literature classes on short fiction.

What else do you want to share?

I am a member of PEN and The Authors Guild.

Other Books

  • Absent Without Leave (story collections)
  • Please Come Back to Me (story collections)
  • And Give You Peace (novel)
  • Lacy Eye (novel)
  • How Will I Know You? (novel)

Awards

  • The Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction
  • The Zacharis First Book Award (Ploughshares)

Current Project

A story collection about people making moral decisions, and the consequences of those decisions; and a novel inspired by Anita Brookner’s novel Fraud.

Website

My author website is jessicatreadway.com

Infinite Dimensions

Infinite Dimensions

By Jessica Treadway

The Gretchen Question

The Gretchen Question

By Jessica Treadway

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