Jessamyn Hope is an award-winning writer of fiction and memoir. Her debut novel Safekeeping was a Boston Globe recommended read; acclaimed by The Globe and Mail, The Montreal Gazette, and Tablet Magazine; a New York Public Library Staff Pick; a National Jewish Book Club pick; winner of the J.I. Segal Award; and a finalist for both the Ribalow Prize and the Paterson Fiction Prize. Safekeeping can also be found at number two on BuzzFeed's "53 Books You Won't Be Able to Put Down."
Her short memoirs — originally published in Ploughshares, Five Points, The Common and elsewhere — 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 fiction has appeared in The Hopkins Review, The Fiddlehead, J Journal, and other literary magazines. She was the Susannah McCorkle Scholar in Fiction at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and has an MFA in creative writing from Sarah Lawrence College.
Jessamyn was raised in Montreal by a mother who was born in Italy and a father who grew up in South Africa. She now lives in New York City (twenty-eight years and counting) and spends time in Tel Aviv. She shares her home with a scholarly husband and two maladjusted rescue dogs. Aside from her obsession with storytelling, Jessamyn is an avid traveler who has backpacked in sixty-some countries; ridden the trans-Siberian railway twice; and bicycled from Istanbul to Gibraltar.
The rest is in her memoirs.