Jessica Anthony is the author of four books of fiction, most recently the novel THE MOST (Little, Brown & Co.), which was longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award in Fiction. Her novel ENTER THE AARDVARK (Little, Brown & Co.) was a finalist for the New England Book Award. 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. She lives in Maine.
Jessica Anthony will offer a poetry workshop, The Unlikely and Obscure: Techniques of Estrangement, as well as an evening reading followed by Q&A.