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It’s peak peony season in my mom’s gorgeous gardens. Aren’t they stunning? My favorite flowers. There’s something so lush about them. My mom’s muppet Bailey helped with this little impromptu photo shoot. 😍
ONE MONTH from today, join me and my brilliant friend @kelseybtoney at Solid State H St for her launch event! I can’t wait! This is a rich, funny, and important contemporary novel about a girl’s journey to get herself and her pain taken s
I told @playwrightsteve I didn’t want a party for my 45th birthday, I wanted a Little Free Library. Today we finally installed it. I’ve filled it — mostly with YA books. Eventually we’ll add more kids’ books and some of
This is 45. I worked at the library all day and then went for fancy sushi with The Playwright down at the Wharf. I thought about ordering a cocktail but got prosecco instead because “I know what I like,” I told him. And I do. In the last
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Announcing my next book: The Harrow Home for Wayward Girls

I’m thrilled to share the news that my new book, a gothic YA mystery called The Harrow Home for Wayward Girls, will be out in fall 2026!

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Standalone Novels

  • Book cover titled 'Great or Nothing' featuring four women walking arm-in-arm. They are dressed in vintage style clothing and are surrounded by floral borders.

    Great or Nothing

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  • Book cover for "The Last Summer of the Garrett Girls" by Jessica Spotswood, featuring four girls with their backs to the camera, standing outdoors with trees in the background.

    The Last Summer of the Garrett Girls

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  • Book cover titled "Wild Swans" by Jessica Spotswood, showing a woman with long hair sitting on driftwood at the beach, facing the ocean during sunset.

    Wild Swans

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The Cahill Witch Chronicles

  • Book cover of 'Star Cursed' by Jessica Spotswood from The Cahill Witch Chronicles series, featuring a young woman with blonde hair in a dress, standing outdoors under a starry night sky with clouds.
  • The cover of a book titled 'Born Wicked' by Jessica Spotswood, featuring a young woman with long, wavy red hair in a cream dress, holding a black bird, with a large full moon in the background and silhouettes of flying birds.
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Anthologies

Jessica Spotswood is the internationally-bestselling author of the YA fantasy trilogy The Cahill Witch Chronicles.

A woman with brown hair and blue eyes smiling, wearing a blue top, with a colorful fruit and leaf patterned background.

She is the editor of the feminist anthologies A Tyranny of Petticoats and The Radical Element, and co-editor (with Tess Sharpe) of Toil & Trouble. Her most recent novel is Great or Nothing, a World War II-era retelling of Little Women. Jess’s books have been included on the ALA’s Rainbow and Rise lists and chosen as Junior Library Guild selections. She lives in Washington, DC, with her husband, mystery author Stephen Spotswood, and she works at the DC Public Library.

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