Jessamyn Hope is the author of the novel Safekeeping—winner of the J.
I. Segal Award and a finalist for the Paterson Fiction Prize and the
Ribalow Prize. Her personal essays and short stories—originally
published in Ploughshares, The Common, Prism International, and
elsewhere—have been selected for Best Canadian Essays, two Pushcart
Prize honorable mentions, a Best American Notable Essay, and multiple
anthologies, including the Broadview Anthology of Expository Prose
(Canadian Edition). She was a Sewanee Scholar in fiction and has an
MFA in writing from Sarah Lawrence College. Born and raised in
Montreal, she now lives in New York City.
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