Jessica Apple

Jessica Apple grew up in Houston.  She studied Bible and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan, and completed an MA in the same field at the Hebrew University.  She began to write and publish short stories while a student, and continues to write essays and fiction while raising her three sons (and many pets). 

 

Jessica’s work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Financial Times Magazine, The Southern Review, The Bellevue Literary Review, Tablet Magazine, and elsewhere.  She is the diabetes correspondent for The Faster Times.  In 2009 she and her husband, both type 1 diabetics, founded A Sweet Life, where she serves as editor-in-chief.  Jessica loves spending time with her sons, cooking with her husband, playing with her cats, reading, biking, drinking coffee, and whenever possible, taking a nap.