Jesse Ruddock

Jesse Ruddock is a Canadian-American writer and photographer, born in Guelph, Ontario. Her debut novel is Shot-Blue, forthcoming with Coach House Books in 2017.
Ruddock was a prodigious ice hockey player, first leaving Canada to attend Harvard University on a hockey scholarship at age 18. After three years as Harvard's starting goaltender, the 2002-03 Harvard Crimson women’s ice hockey season was her last, ending in a double-overtime loss to Minnesota Duluth in the championship game of the NCAA D-I Frozen Four.
Her writing has appeared in the NewYorker.com, BOMB Magazine, Music & Literature, N+1, and Vice, among other places.
Reviews
"Shot-Blue is that rarest species, a genuinely wise novel. Its characters are at once too lonely, and insufficiently alone; their landscape feels both tender and indifferent, god-haunted and abandoned. This is a truly exceptional and compelling work, and in that way, its own variety of joy."
- Rivka Galchen, author of Atmospheric Disturbances
"Jesse Ruddock understands the weight of things that cannot be said aloud. A sensitive book about lives lived at the edge of society, in the shadow of an idyllic panorama, given voice only in the silence of adolescence."
- Jenny Erpenbeck, author of The End of Days
"Stunning and just so gracefully told. Ruddock’s landscape and characters are told by heart and her fierce and beautiful language makes you feel it."
- Naja Marie Aidt, author of Rock, Paper, Scissors

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