Jessica Treadway

Jessica Treadway

Jessica Treadway (www.jessicatreadway.com) held a fellowship at the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College and taught at Tufts University before joining the faculty at Emerson College, where she is a Senior Distinguished Writer in Residence in the Department of Writing, Literature, and Publishing. Her two most recent novels are How Will I Know You? (2016), which was a People Magazine Book of the Week, and Lacy Eye (2015), a Target Book Club pick. Both were published by Grand Central Publishing. Her story collection Please Come Back To Me received the Flannery O'Connor Award For Short Fiction. Her other books are Absent Without Leave, a collection of stories (Delphinium Books/Simon & Schuster, 1992), and And Give You Peace, a novel (Graywolf Press, 2001). Her fiction has been published in The Atlantic, Ploughshares, The Hudson Review, Glimmer Train, AGNI, Five Points and other journals, and has been cited multiple times in The Best American Short Stories annual anthology.