Jackie Thomas-Kennedy

Jackie Thomas-Kennedy’s debut novel, The Other Wife (Riverhead), was included in The New York Times 2025 list of “The Summer’s Best Beach Reads” and NPR’s “Books We Love” (2025). Her work has been recorded for NPR’s Selected Shorts, and her book reviews have appeared in The Washington Post, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Harvard Review, on the Ploughshares blog, and elsewhere. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford, she has received fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MacDowell, Yaddo, Ucross, and Saltonstall. She holds an MFA in fiction from Columbia University School of the Arts.