Jessica Lott is a New York City–based fiction writer and essayist whose first novel is due out from Simon & Schuster in 2012 (and in France through Flammarion). Her first book, the novella Osin, won the 2006 Novella Award from Low Fidelity Press, judged by Aimee Bender. In addition to Osin she has published short fiction, essays, and reviews in various journals in the U.S. and internationally, including the art magazines frieze and NY Arts, and her arts writing won the 2009 Writer’s Prize from the Frieze Foundation in London. Lott holds an M.A. in Creative Writing (Fiction) from Boston University, where she won the Florence Engel Randall Graduate Fiction Award for 2004. She also holds an M.A. in English and American Literature with a concentration in 19th-century British fiction from Washington University in St. Louis and was a summer grant recipient for her research and translation of contemporary Latin American fiction and poetry. She has taught English and Creative Writing at universities and workshops, and is a longtime editor and consultant for fiction and nonfiction, especially art catalogues, for the Brooklyn Museum, New Museum, Joan Mitchell Foundation, and The Studio Museum in Harlem.

Represented by Lane Zachary of Zachary Shuster Harmsworth Literary Agency, New York.

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