Jesse Falzoi

Jesse Falzoi was born in Hamburg and raised in Lübeck, Germany. After stays in the US and France, she moved to Berlin in the beginning of the nineties. Her stories as well as her translation of Donald Barthelme’s “Sentence” have appeared in American, Russian, Indian, German, Swiss, Irish, British, and Canadian magazines and anthologies. Her German book on craft "Creative Writing" came out in 2017, her German novel "Das Geheimnis der Welt" was published in 2018, a year later her first short story collection "A Place to Be".

She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Sierra Nevada College and teaches Creative Writing in German and English at Community College and a secondary school.

In 2026, her fourth novel, The Year behind Glass, was published in German, as well as a second short story collection, The Good People from the West.