Jessica Treadway Explained

Jessica Treadway
Birth Place:Albany, New York, U.S.
Occupation:short story writer
Alma Mater:State University of New York at Albany
Notable 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
  • And Give You Peace, a novel, Graywolf Press, 2000
Partner:Philip Holland
Awards:

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 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

Works

Anthologies

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: About | Ploughshares.
  2. Web site: Emerson College. 31 October 2016. 20 September 2006. https://web.archive.org/web/20060920233955/https://www.emerson.edu/writing_lit_publishing/faculty.cfm?facultyID=420. dead.
  3. Web site: Read By Author - Ploughshares. 31 October 2016.
  4. Web site: AGNI Online: Author Jessica Treadway. 31 October 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20100311071320/http://web.bu.edu/agni/authors/J/Jessica-Treadway.html. 11 March 2010. dead.
  5. Book: Margaret Ross Griffel. Margaret Ross Griffel. Adrienne Fried Block. Operas in English: A Dictionary. 1999. Greenwood Press. 978-0-313-25310-2.
  6. Web site: Jessica Treadway - Directory of Writers - Poets & Writers. 31 October 2016.