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About Jessamyn

Jessamyn Hope is an award-winning novelist and memoirist. Her novel SAFEKEEPING was a recommended read by The Boston Globe; acclaimed by The Globe and Mail; a New York Public Library Staff Pick; winner of the J.I. Segal Award in English Fiction; a finalist for both the Ribalow Prize and Paterson Fiction Prize; and found at number two on BuzzFeed's "53 Books You Won't Be Able to Put Down." Her memoirs—originally published in Ploughshares, The Common, Prism International, and other literary magazines—have received two Pushcart Prize honorable mentions, been named a Best American Notable Essay, and have been anthologized in Best Canadian Essays and The Broadview Anthology of Expository Prose. Her short stories have appeared in The Fiddlehead, The Hopkins Review, Descant, J Journal, and elsewhere. She was the Susannah McCorkle Scholar in Fiction at the Sewanee Writers Conference and has an MFA in creative writing from Sarah Lawrence College. Learn more at jessamynhope.com.