Jessica Treadway
Jessica Treadway | |
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| Born | 1961 (age 62–63) Albany, New York, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | State University of New York at Albany |
| Occupation | short story writer |
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| Partner | Philip Holland |
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Jessica Treadway (born 1961 Albany, New York) is an American short story writer.
Life[edit]
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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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.
References[edit]
- ^ "Emerson College". Archived from the original on 20 September 2006. Retrieved 31 October 2016.
- ^ "Read By Author - Ploughshares". Retrieved 31 October 2016.
- ^ "AGNI Online: Author Jessica Treadway". Archived from the original on 11 March 2010. Retrieved 31 October 2016.
- ^ Margaret Ross Griffel; Adrienne Fried Block (1999). Operas in English: A Dictionary. Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-25310-2.
- ^ "Jessica Treadway - Directory of Writers - Poets & Writers". Retrieved 31 October 2016.
External links[edit]
- "Author' website"
- "Professor Profile: Jessica Treadway", Vernacular, September 16th, 2009
- "Review by: Emily Koon", Women Writers, May 2003
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- 1961 births
- American women short story writers
- Writers from Albany, New York
- University at Albany, SUNY alumni
- Boston University alumni
- Tufts University faculty
- Emerson College faculty
- Living people
- 20th-century American short story writers
- 21st-century American short story writers
- 20th-century American women writers
- 21st-century American women writers
- American women academics