Jessica Goudeau

Jessica Goudeau is the author of After the Last Border: Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America, which won the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, a Christopher Award, and was named a New York Times Editors' Choice book. She has been a columnist for Catapult and written for The New York Times, The Atlantic, and Washington Post, among many other places . She produced short documentaries distributed by Teen Vogue and The New Yorker about young women crossing borders. She has a PhD in literature...See more

Jessica Goudeau is the author of After the Last Border: Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America, which won the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, a Christopher Award, and was named a New York Times Editors' Choice book. She has been a columnist for Catapult and written for The New York Times, The Atlantic, and Washington Post, among many other places . She produced short documentaries distributed by Teen Vogue and The New Yorker about young women crossing borders. She has a PhD in literature from the University of Texas and teaches Creative Nonfiction at Wilkes University. See less