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

Jessica Treadway
Born1961 (age 62–63)
Alma materState University of New York at Albany
Occupationshort 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

Life

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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]

Awards

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Works

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  • 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.

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References

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  1. ^ a b "About | Ploughshares".
  2. ^ "Emerson College". Archived from the original on 20 September 2006. Retrieved 31 October 2016.
  3. ^ "Read By Author - Ploughshares". Retrieved 31 October 2016.
  4. ^ "AGNI Online: Author Jessica Treadway". Archived from the original on 11 March 2010. Retrieved 31 October 2016.
  5. ^ Margaret Ross Griffel; Adrienne Fried Block (1999). Operas in English: A Dictionary. Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-25310-2.
  6. ^ "Jessica Treadway - Directory of Writers - Poets & Writers". Retrieved 31 October 2016.
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