{"id":246,"date":"2015-08-31T11:47:17","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T15:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/profile\/jess-l-anthony-2\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T04:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T08:10:09","slug":"jessica-l-anthony","status":"publish","type":"faculty-profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/profile\/jessica-l-anthony\/","title":{"rendered":"Jessica L. Anthony"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Jessica Anthony is the author of four books of fiction, including the novel<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><em data-start=\"154\" data-end=\"164\">The Most<\/em>, which was longlisted for the National Book Award and was a finalist for the Prix Fitzgerald and the Clark Fiction Prize. Her novel<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><em data-start=\"297\" data-end=\"317\">Enter the Aardvark<\/em><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>was a finalist for the New England Book Award, and her novel<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><em data-start=\"379\" data-end=\"397\">The Convalescent<\/em><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>won the inaugural Amanda Davis Highwire Fiction Award from McSweeney\u2019s. Her short stories have appeared in <em>Best American Nonrequired Reading<\/em>,<em> Best New American Voices<\/em>, <em>McSweeney&#8217;s<\/em>,<em> The Idaho Review,<\/em> and elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony is a 2026 Guggenheim Fellow and has received the Creative Capital Award for Literature. Other fellowships include support from the Maine Arts Commission, MacDowell, Ucross, and the Bogliasco Foundation. In 2017, Anthony spent three months serving as the 41st Bridge Guard, guarding the M\u00e1ria Val\u00e9ria Bridge between \u0160t\u00farovo, Slovakia, and Esztergom, Hungary, and she has been a Fellow in Residence at the Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Her books have been translated into ten languages and have been featured in<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><em data-start=\"1057\" data-end=\"1063\">Time<\/em>,<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><em data-start=\"1065\" data-end=\"1075\">Newsweek<\/em>, NPR,<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><em data-start=\"1082\" data-end=\"1103\">The Washington Post<\/em>, and<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><em data-start=\"1109\" data-end=\"1129\">The New York Times<\/em><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>as an Editor\u2019s Choice, as well as internationally in<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><em data-start=\"1185\" data-end=\"1195\">Le Monde<\/em>,<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><em data-start=\"1197\" data-end=\"1210\">Der Spiegel<\/em>,<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><em data-start=\"1212\" data-end=\"1221\">El Pa\u00eds<\/em>, and<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><em data-start=\"1227\" data-end=\"1241\">Il Manifesto<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":777,"featured_media":7413,"template":"","class_list":["post-246","faculty-profile","type-faculty-profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","what-i-teach-19th-and-20th-century-literature","what-i-teach-21st-century-literature","what-i-teach-creative-nonfiction-workshop","what-i-teach-fiction-writing-workshop","what-i-teach-specific-absurdity","what-i-teach-specific-contemporary-american-realism","what-i-teach-specific-global-literatures-in-translation","what-i-teach-specific-microfictions","what-i-teach-specific-modernism","what-i-teach-specific-narrative-pointillism","what-i-teach-specific-novel-writing","what-i-teach-specific-novella-writing","what-i-teach-specific-post-modernism","what-i-teach-specific-proems","what-i-teach-specific-short-forms","what-i-teach-specific-short-story-writing","what-i-teach-specific-surrealism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/faculty-profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/777"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7937,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/246\/revisions\/7937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}