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Jessie Greengrass (born 1982) is a British author.
She studied philosophy in Cambridge and London and now lives in Berwick-upon-Tweed. She published a collection of short stories called, An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk, According to One Who Saw It in 2015. It won a Somerset Maugham Award and the Edge Hill Short Story Prize.
In 2018, she published her first novel, called Sight. It follows a woman, who stays nameless throughout the novel, while she is pregnant with her second child. Sight was shortlisted for the 2018 Women's Prize for Fiction, longlisted for the 2019 Wellcome Book Prize and shortlisted for the 2019 James Tait Black Memorial Prize.