Jessie’s play, Tinkers Damn, recently received two professional staged readings (November 2021 and October 2023) by Rose Theatre in its First Draft Series. In addition, an excerpt of the play was solicited by and published in The Pen Woman (2023). Seigel has twice been awarded an individual artist’s fellowship from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities. She has been a finalist for a grant from the Speculative Literature Foundation, as well as for the Claymore Award, the Novel Slices Award, and the 47th New Millennium Award. Her work has also been a semi-finalist for the William Faulkner Creative Writing Award for the Novel and the Eludia Award. Seigel’s fiction has appeared in Ontario Review, Gargoyle, Daily Science Fiction, and The Satirist, as well as the anthologies Electric Grace, Furious Gravity, and the London Reader’s Murder or Mystery?, among other publications. Her poetry has appeared in Response, a Contemporary Jewish Review, and The Boston Jewish Times (where, for two years, her poetry was featured bi-weekly on the editorial page). Seigel has an MA in Writing from Johns Hopkins University. She is an associate editor at the Potomac Review, writes book reviews for the Washington Independent Review of Books, and is a political columnist at My Washington Whispers, www.mywashintonwhispers.com. She also practiced law as a government attorney for many years.