About

Jessica Anthony is the author of four books of fiction, most recently the novel THE MOST (Little, Brown & Co.), longlisted for the National Book Award in Fiction, and a finalist for the Prix Fitzgerald. Her novel ENTER THE AARDVARK (Little, Brown & Co.) was a finalist for the New England Book Award in Fiction. Anthony’s novels have been published in over a dozen countries, and are featured in Time, Newsweek, Esquire, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and The New York Times Book Review as an Editors’ Choice. Anthony served as the 41st Bridge Guard in Literature, in Štúrovo, Slovakia. She has received literary fellowships from the Maine Arts Commission, the Millay Colony, Ucross, MacDowell, the Bogliasco Foundation, and recently spent a month in residence at the Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington. Anthony won the inaugural Amanda Davis Highwire Fiction Award from McSweeney’s, and she is a recipient of the Creative Capital Award for Literature. Her 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.