Jessamyn Hope is an award-winning writer of fiction and memoir. Her debut novel Safekeeping was a Boston Globe recommended read; acclaimed by The Globe and Mail; a New York Public Library Staff Pick; a National Jewish Book Club pick; winner of the J.I. Segal Award; and a finalist for the Ribalow Prize and the Paterson Fiction Prize. Safekeeping can also be found at number two on BuzzFeed's "53 Books You Won't Be Able to Put Down."Her short memoirs and stories - originally published in Ploughshares, The Common, and other magazines - have received two Pushcart Prize honorable mentions, been named a Best American Notable Essay, and have been anthologized in Best Canadian Essays and The Broadview Anthology of Expository Prose. Originally from Montreal, Hope currently splits her time between New York City and Tel Aviv. Learn more at jessamynhope.com.