Jessie Seigel has been the recipient of two individual artist’s fellowships from the Washington D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities as well as a finalist for a grant from the Speculative Literature Foundation.

An excerpt of her as yet unpublished novel, Tinker’s Damn, was published in Ontario Review, and the entire novel has been a semi-finalist for both the William Faulkner Creative Writing Award for the Novel and the Eludia Award.  In addition, a second unpublished novel, The American Way, was also a semi-finalist for the Eludia Award.

The Devil’s Dilemma, a novel in progress has been a finalist for the Killer Nashville Claymore Award and the Novel Slices Contest.

Seigel’s short fiction has been a finalist for the 47th New Millennium Award as well as receiving honorable mentions for the 44th New Millennium Award and the Washington Prize.

Most recently, Seigel’s adaptation of the novel Tinker’s Damn as a play received a professional staged reading by Rose Theatre, and an excerpt of the play was published in The Pen Woman.

Seigel has a Master of Arts in Writing from The Johns Hopkins University and has taught fiction writing in Georgetown University’s continuing education program. She was graduated with a Bachelor of Arts, Phi Beta Kappa, from Wayne State University (majoring in philosophy with an emphasis in logic and linguistics).  She also has a Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan Law School, and was an attorney with a federal agency for many years.

Currently, Seigel is an associate fiction editor at the Potomac Review,  and writes book reviews for the Washington Independent Review of Books as well as a bi-weekly political column, my Washington Whispers. She also occasionally dabbles in illustration and political cartooning. Seigel lives in Washington, D.C.

For a list of Jessie Seigel’s publications, click here.