Critical Praise

“Jesper Andreasson writes with an experienced drollery that feels completely right. He creates through character interactions that sense of sorrowful humor, or humorous (as in "what can you do?") sorrow that the Europeans and Russians are so good at. Reading him, I think of writers like Hamsun, Hrabal, Walser... He is a talent to be watching.”

- Sven Birkerts

“Jesper’s particular gifts: the ability to condense, to find the marrow of an encounter, to use wit judiciously, to carve out indelible protagonists within the space of a few sentences… few writers can leave lasting impressions with such economy.”

- Katy Simpson Smith, author of The Story of Land and Sea, and Free Men

BIO

Jesper Andreasson was born in Stockholm. His fiction and poetry appear in AGNI, Tupelo Quarterly, Coda Quarterly, Green Mountains Review, and elsewhere. Nominated for the James Kirkwood Literary Prize, he received his MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars. Jesper is the former lead singer, guitarist and songwriter of Citrus, his voice described as "a form of pure emotion" and having the "passion and ecstatic heights of Jeff Buckley." He called Los Angeles home for most of his life and currently lives in London.