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Jessamyn Hope is the author of the novel Safekeeping, winner of the J.I. Segal Award and a finalist for both the Ribalow Prize and the Paterson Fiction Prize. Her memoirs and short stories — originally published in Ploughshares, The Common, and elsewhere — have received two Pushcart Prize honorable mentions, been named a Best American Notable Essay, and have been anthologized in Best Canadian Essays, The Broadview Anthology of Expository Prose, and The New Spice Box: Contemporary Jewish Writing. She grew up in Montreal, has long lived in New York City, and is spending the year in Tel Aviv.