Jessica Levine is the author of three novels constituting The Cousins Series. Interconnected, they can be read in sequence or as standalones. Appearing on April 8, 2025, Three Cousins, is the first of the series and a prequel to the others. The second is The Geometry of Love, a Top 10 Women’s Fiction Title in the American Library Association’s Booklist, which called it an “outstanding first novel.” And the third, Nothing Forgotten, received the Next Generation Indie Award. Her literary history, Delicate Pursuit: Discretion in Henry James and Edith Wharton, was published in Routledge’s Outstanding Dissertation Series (2002). Her essays, shorts stories, and poetry have appeared in many publications including The Southern Review and The Huffington Post. Jessica also has translated several books from French and Italian into English.

Jessica holds a B.A. from Wellesley College, an M.A. from Teachers College, Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of California at Berkeley, where she was a Mellon Fellow. After receiving her Ph.D., she decided not to pursue an academic teaching career, but to become a hypnotherapist. She trained in hypnotherapy at HTI (Hypnotherapy Training Institute) and subsequently did additional training in shamanic practices at HCH Institute with Greg Harper, Ph.D.

Jessica has had a rich and varied experience teaching creative writing, composition, and literature in universities, high school, adult education, and the private sector. In 2014-15, Jessica held workshops on writing the novel at the American Library in Paris. Previously, she taught at the University of Toronto, New York University, and the University of California at Berkeley.

In her hypnotherapy practice, Jessica helps clients with a huge variety of issues, including blocked creativity, anxiety, depression, insomnia, stress, trauma, illness and physical pain, and spiritual growth.

Jessica was born in New York City and now lives in Northern California.