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.