Jessica Treat
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Works
"Jessica Treat's short fictions have perfect pitch and these, her latest, resonate in memory long after completion. This collection features both short-shorts, as luminous as prose poems, a form Ms. Treat has made her own, and full-length stories that are quirky, smart and deeply felt. Meat Eaters & Plant Eaters is a Treat to be savored." –Jonathan Baumbach
"The directness and simplicity of Treat's tone is so unassuming, it's forcibly intimate. Her manner may be quiet but it's unabashed, and it overtakes the reader, as if by stealth. An original, remarkable work." –Irini Spanidou
"There is a joy in reading [A Robber in the House], the joy of experiencing superb writing by an artist who builds suspense and tension word by word..." –Minneapolis Star Tribune
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Review of "Meeting M." in the anthology, Nine Muses: "...Equally moving, and equally sophisticated, is Jessica Treat’s account of a literal meeting between a writer and a muse who may be an alter ego, and whose role is subsumed at story’s end into the protagonist’s own identity. We make our muses as best we can, the story suggests. Of both the difficulty and the deep rewards of such an enterprise, this fine collection of stories bears ample testimony." --Phillip Snyder, Science Fiction Research Association |
