Jessie Greengrass (born 1982)^[1] is a British author. She won a Somerset Maugham Award and the Edge Hill Short Story Prize for her debut short story collection.

Greengrass studied philosophy in Cambridge^[2] and London and now lives in Berwick-upon-Tweed. She published a collection of short stories called An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk, According to One Who Saw It in 2015.^[3] The Independent described The Account of the Decline of the Great Auk as "a highly original collection from a distinctive new voice in fiction."^[4] It won the Somerset Maugham Award and the Edge Hill Short Story Prize.^[1][2]

In 2018, she published her first novel, called Sight. It follows a woman, who stays nameless throughout the novel, while she is pregnant with her second child.^[5] Greengrass includes biographical stories of several people including the Lumière brothers, Sigmund Freud, Wilhelm Röntgen and John Hunter, to highlight the book's central themes of reflection and analysis.^[2][6] Sight was shortlisted for the 2018 Women's Prize for Fiction,^[7] longlisted for the 2019 Wellcome Book Prize^[8] and shortlisted for the 2019 James Tait Black Memorial Prize.^[9]

Her second novel, The High House, was published in April 2021. It follows an unconventional family as they survive a climate apocalypse in a house prepared by the mother, a climate scientist and activist, who knows the floods are coming but does not survive them.^[10] It was shortlisted for the 2021 the Costa Novel Award,^[11] the Royal Society of Literature's Encore Award,^[12] and the Orwell Prize for Political Writing.^[13]

• An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk, According to One Who Saw It (2015)
• Sight (2018)
• The High House (2021)