News & Events

Contact Jessie if you would like to set up a reading or a speaking engagement, or if you would like further details about upcoming events.

Jessie’s new essay collection Yoke & Feather is forthcoming from Dzanc Books in fall 2024. Stay tuned!

In Electric Literature, Jessie celebrates the launch of Call It Horses with a discussion of seven books that grapple with spirituality & the body.

Jessie’s newest novel, Call It Horses, released March 23, 2021, won the 2019 Dzanc Books Prize for Fiction and was named a finalist for the Foreword INDIES award in general adult fiction: “Call It Horses is a spectacular novel. With the gorgeous language of Jayne Anne Phillips, the compassion of Carson McCullers, Jessie van Eerden follows an unforgettable cast of women through their lives and longing in West Virginia with precision and insight. An original, beautifully structured, and deeply moving book.” –Karen E. Bender, author of The New Order and Refund, finalist for the National Book Award

Jessie’s essay “Bless the Smallest Hollow: On Longing and Online Dating,” winner of the 2018 Gulf Coast Prize in Nonfiction, has been listed as a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2020.

“What I Want Your Voice to Do,” an essay by Jessie in Blackbird, was selected by Sundress Publications for Best of the Net 2018.

“Yoke,” an essay by Jessie in Appalachian Review (Fall 2017), won the 2017 Denny C. Plattner Award for Nonfiction.