Jessica Treadway

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Jessica Treadway
Born1961 (age 6263)
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater State University of New York at Albany
Occupation short story writer
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
PartnerPhilip Holland
Awards

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. [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 Ellen Bender’s opera after Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Marble Faun , [5] 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. [6]

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