In
addition to Meat Eaters & Plant Eaters, Jessica Treat is the author
of two other story collections: A Robber in the House (Coffee House
Press), and Not aChance (FC2). Her stories, essays, prose poems,
and translations have been widely published in anthologies and literary
journals, including Epoch, Quarterly West, Black Warrior
Review, American Literary Review, and Ms. Magazine. Treat has
been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and was awarded the Dominion Review
Fiction Award. In 2001 she received an Artist Fellowship Award for further
work in fiction from the CT Commission on the Arts; she has also received Artist
Fellowship Awards from the Fundacion Valparaiso (1998) and Civitella Ranieri
(2008). Born in Canada, she grew up in New England and lived for a number of
years in Mexico City. Treat is Professor of English at Northwestern Connecticut
Community College, where she co-ordinates the annual Mad River Literary
Festival, co-chairs the Cultural Planning Committee, and serves as Faculty
Advisor to the Spanish Club. In 2007, she received the Award for
Distinguished Service & Educational Excellence Award.
