Jessica L. Anthony

Lecturer in English

Associations

English

Hathorn Hall, Room 300

207-786-6314janthony@bates.edu

About

Jessica Anthony ’96 is the author of three books of fiction, most recently the novel ENTER THE AARDVARK (Little, Brown & Co. 2020). Anthony’s novels have been published in over a dozen countries, and are featured in Time, Newsweek, Esquire, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times Book Review as an Editors’ Choice. Anthony has received literary fellowships from the Creative Capital Foundation, the Bogliasco Foundation (Italy), the Bridge Guard Foundation (Slovakia), the Maine Arts Commission, and she recently spent a month in residence at the Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington. Anthony’s story “The Death of Mustango Salvaje,” originally published by McSweeney’s, is currently in development with A24 for a limited TV series, filmed in Spain. Her next novel, THE MOST, is forthcoming from Little, Brown & Co. in 2024.

Current Courses

Winter Semester 2024

ENG 121F
Modern Essays

ENG 291
Fiction Writing

Fall Semester 2024

ENG 391
Advanced Fiction Writing

ENG 392
Advanced Poetry Writing

FYS 559
Art of the Short Story: Writing and Critiquing Short Fiction