Jessica Reidy

Jessica Reidy earned her MFA at Florida State University and B.A. from Hollins University. Her Pushcart-nominated work has appeared in Narrative Magazine’s Short Story of the Week, The Los Angeles Review, The Missouri Review, and other journals. She’s Managing Editor for VIDA, Art Editor for The Southeast Review, and Visiting Professor for the Cambridge Writers’ Workshop. She freelances, teaches yoga, and works her Romani (Gypsy) family trades, fortune telling, energy healing, and dancing. Jessica is writing her first novel set in a post-WWII Parisian circus about Coco, a half-Romani burlesque dancer and fortune teller who becomes a Nazi hunter. www.jessicareidy.com.