Jessica Lott is a New York fiction and arts writer. Her first novel, The Rest of Us (Simon & Schuster), won the New England Book Festival Award for Fiction, was called “a stellar fiction newcomer” on NPR “Fresh Air,” and received rave reviews from The Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, Slate, Daily Beast, and elsewhere. Her novella Osin won the Novella Award from Low Fidelity Press. She has published short fiction, essays, and art reviews in the US and internationally, including the New York Times, Artforum, PBS: Art21 Magazine,  frieze, and The Modern Spectator; her art criticism won the Art Writer’s Prize from the Frieze Foundation in London. She was an editorial advisor for the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum and a Solomon Resident in Art Criticism with the Tang Museum at Skidmore College.

Jessica has held numerous residencies and fellowships, including two at MacDowell; the Bogliasco Foundation, Italy; and Passa Porta, Belgium; and she was a featured author at the University of North Dakota Writers’ Conference. She is a freelance editor and manuscript consultant for A24 Films (books division), The Studio Museum in Harlem, Joan Mitchell Foundation, Queens Museum, The Kitchen NYC, Harvard University, and private clients in scholarly and commercial publishing.

She is the author of a novel about Barcelona’s post-dictatorship cultural transformation in the lead-up to the 1992 Olympics, and a project-in-process about contemporary life in Barcelona. She splits her time between Barcelona and New York.