Jessi Lewis

Jessi Lewis grew up on a blueberry farm in rural Virginia and now teaches English in her home state. You can find her most recent work in The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year, 2023, edited by Amor Towles. She received an honorable mention in Best American Short Stories, 2020, and was once an Oxford American Debut Fiction Prize winner. In addition, her essays, short stories, and poems have been published in Alaska Quarterly Review, The Massachusetts Review, The Hopkins Review, Zone 3, Sonora Review, The Pinch, and Yemassee, among others. Jessi's novel manuscript was a finalist for the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. Find her online at jessilewis.com and @jessiwrit on Bluesky, Threads, and Instagram.