Jessica Treadway

Jessica Treadway (born 1961 Albany, New York) is an American short story writer.

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.^[2]

Her fiction has been published in The Atlantic, Ploughshares,^[3] The Hudson Review, Glimmer Train, AGNI,^[4] Five Points.

She wrote the libretto for composer ’s opera after Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Marble Faun,^[5] and served as literary co-translator of “A Crowning Experience” by 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.^[6]

Awards[]

• National Endowment for the Arts
• Massachusetts Cultural Council.
• 1993 John C. Zacharis First Book Award^[1]
• 2009 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction

Works[]

• 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. ISBN 978-0-671-79213-8.
• And Give You Peace, a novel. Graywolf Press. 2000. ISBN 978-1-55597-315-5.

Anthologies[]

• The Best American Short Stories
• Bill Henderson, ed. (December 2003). The Pushcart Prize XXVIII: Best of the Small Presses. Pushcart Press. ISBN 978-1-888889-37-6.

References[]

External links[]

• "Author' website"
• "Professor Profile: Jessica Treadway", Vernacular, September 16th, 2009
• "Review by: Emily Koon", Women Writers, May 2003