Jessica Treadway

Jessica Treadway
Born	1961 Albany, New York
Nationality	American
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
Home town	Lexington, Massachusetts
Partner(s)	Philip Holland
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

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 Ellen Bender’s opera of 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.^[5]

Awards

National Endowment for the Arts
Massachusetts Cultural Council.
1993 John C. Zacharis First Book Award ^[6]
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
The O. Henry Prize Stories
Bill Henderson, ed. (December 2003). The Pushcart Prize XXVIII: Best of the Small Presses. Pushcart Press. ISBN 978-1-888889-37-6.

Ploughshares

References

External links

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 16421357 BNF: cb16966257r (data)

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