Jessamyn Hope

Jessamyn Hope‘s  debut novel, SAFEKEEPING (Fig Tree Books, June 2015), takes place over the summer of 1994 on a kibbutz in Israel. Her short fiction and memoirs have appeared in Ploughshares, Five Points, and PRISM international, among other literary magazines. She was the Susannah McCorkle Scholar in Fiction at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and has an MFA in creative writing from Sarah Lawrence. Born and raised in Montreal, she now lives in New York City. Connect with her on Twitter.