Jessica Treadway

Jessica Treadway has published four novels and three story collections, including Please Come Back to Me which received the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. Her mystery novel How Will I Know You? was a People Magazine Book of the Week; her psychological thriller Lacy Eye was a Target Book Club pick and appeared in translations in seven countries in addition to the US, UK, and Australia. Treadway's other books are the novels The Gretchen Question and And Give You Peace and the collections Infinite Dimensions and Absent Without Leave. Treadway is a recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. She is a former reporter for United Press International and a former fellow at Radcliffe's Bunting Institute; and she served as a member of the Board of Directors of PEN-New England, where she was co-chair of its Freedom to Write committee.