Jessie Greengrass

Jessie Greengrass (born 1982)[1] is a British author.

She studied philosophy in Cambridge and London and now lives in Berwick-upon-Tweed. She published a collection of short stories called, An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk, According to One Who Saw It in 2015.[2] It won a Somerset Maugham Award and the Edge Hill Short Story Prize.[1]

In 2018, she published her first novel, called Sight. It follows a woman, who stays nameless throughout the novel, while she is pregnant with her second child.[3] Sight was shortlisted for the 2018 Women's Prize for Fiction,[4] longlisted for the 2019 Wellcome Book Prize[5] and shortlisted for the 2019 James Tait Black Memorial Prize.[6]

References
  1. "Jessie Greengrass". Women's Prize for Fiction. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
  2. "An Account Of The Decline Of The Great Auk, According To One Who Saw". The Independent. 25 July 2015. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
  3. "Sight by Jessie Greengrass review – a stunning debut novel about minds and bodies". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
  4. "Shamsie wins Women's Prize for Fiction". BBC News. 7 June 2018. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
  5. "Wellcome book prize: gender and identity dominate 2019 longlist". The Guardian. 5 February 2019. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
  6. "Olivia Laing splits James Tait Black prize win with fellow shortlistees". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 October 2019.


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