About me
Jessica Keener's bestselling debut novel, Night Swim, was followed by an award-winning collection of stories, Women in Bed. Her second novel, Strangers in Budapest, was an Indie Next pick, an Entertainment Weekly Best New Book selection, and a Southern Independent Bookseller Association bestseller. She has been the recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council artist grant, a Jakobson scholarship from Wesleyan University, and two fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her features have appeared inThe Boston Globe, Agni, WBUR’s Cognoscenti and many other national publications. Her essay, "The Flow Room", was included in the award-winning anthology: Alone Together, winner of the 2021 Washington State Book Prize. She has recently completed a new novel, Evening Begins the Day, and is working on a memoir.