Jessie Seigel is a fiction writer, playwright, and political columnist.  She has twice received an Artist’s Fellowship from the Washington, D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities for her fiction, and was a finalist for a grant from the Speculative Literature Foundation. Her play, an adaptation of her novel, Tinker’s Damn, has recently received two staged readings by Rose Theatre.

Seigel has also been a finalist or semi-finalist for a number of literary awards:

• Tinker’s Damn (novel): semi-finalist for both the William Faulkner Creative Writing Award for the Novel and for the Eludia Award.
• The American Way (novel): semi-finalist for the Eludia Award
• The Devil’s Dilemma (novel in progress): finalist for both the Killer Nashville Claymore Award and the Novel Slices Contest
• The Apologia of a Stable Genius (short fiction): finalist for the New Millennium Award
• My Demon Lover (poem): finalist for New Millennium FEAR award

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 for many years an attorney with a federal agency.

In addition to her creative writing, Seigel currently is an associate fiction editor at the Potomac Review and writes occasional 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 at Daily Kos.

Of this juggling in her work between the imaginative and the analytic, Seigel jokes, “I guess my right and left brains are well-balanced.”

For a list and links to Jessie Seigel’s published work, click here.