Jes­si­ca Keen­er’s best­selling debut nov­el, Night Swim, was fol­lowed by her col­lec­tion of award-win­ning sto­ries, Women in Bed. Her sec­ond nov­el, Strangers in Budapest, was an Indie Next pick, a South­ern Inde­pen­dent Book­seller Asso­ci­a­tion best­seller, and a ​“best new book” selec­tion by Enter­tain­ment Week­ly. She has been list­ed in The Push­cart Prize under ​‘out­stand­ing writ­ers’ and grant­ed writ­ing fel­low­ships from the Mass­a­chu­setts Cul­tur­al Coun­cil, Brown Uni­ver­si­ty, Wes­leyan Uni­ver­si­ty, the Vir­ginia Cen­ter for the Cre­ative Arts, as well as a wom­en’s lead­er­ship fel­low­ship from the Omega Insti­tute in New York. Her more than 100 fea­ture arti­cles and essays have appeared in The Boston Globe, WBUR’s Cognoscen­ti, O mag­a­zine, Lilith mag­a­zine, Psy­chol­o­gy Today, and the anthol­o­gy: Alone Togeth­er, win­ner of the 2021 Wash­ing­ton State Book Prize. Jes­si­ca lives with her hus­band, an attor­ney, in Brook­line, MA.