Jessica Grant (born May 31, 1972 in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador) is a Canadian writer, whose

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''Come, Thou Tortoise'' won the 2009

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'', March 25, 2010. and the 2009

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'', April 28, 2010. and was named as the winner of the 2009 Amazon.ca First Novel Award. The novel was also short-listed for the 2010

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Young Adult Book Award, was long-listed for CBC's

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2011 competition. She previously won the

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in 2003 for her short story "My Husband's Jump", which was republished in her 2005 short story collection ''Making Light of Tragedy''. Jessica Grant is a member o
Newfoundland's Burning Rock Collective
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writers Michael Winter and Lisa Moore. In addition to writing Grant has also worked as an educator and has taught classes on creative writing and short fiction at Memorial University of Newfoundland (2007-2009), was a faculty member at Piper's Frith Writing Retreat in Swift Current, Newfoundland (2009) and the

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(2010) and served as the writer-in-residence at Memorial University of Newfoundland for the winter 2011 semester. She lives in St. John's,

Works

*''Making Light of Tragedy'' (2005) *''Come, Thou Tortoise'' (2009)

References

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