MFA, University of Alabama
Richardson is author of the short story collection, It Had Been Planned and There Were Guides, which won the FC2 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize and was longlisted for the PEN American Center/ Robert W. Bingham Award. Jessica’s work has been featured or honored at The Short Form, Zoetrope, Short Fiction, the National Society of Arts and Letters, and her novel won the 2022 Grindstone International Novel Prize. Stories have appeared in the Commuter at Electric Lit, Gulf Coast, Masters Review, Slice Magazine, and in an immersive online exhibit at Neon Door among other places. She received her MFA from the University of Alabama and has taught Creative Writing there, at Rutgers in her home state of New Jersey, and at Coastal Carolina University.
