Devon Jersild (born August 25, 1958) is a clinical psychologist, author and screenwriter.
She graduated summa cum laude from Dartmouth College, and was awarded a master's degree by the Bread Loaf School of English, and a doctorate in clinical psychology by Fielding Graduate University.
Her essays and stories have appeared in such publications as The New York Times, The Kenyon Review, USA Today, Redbook, and Glamour Magazine.
She won an O. Henry Award in 1991 for her short story "In Which John Imagines His Mind as a Pond."
Andre Dubus III wrote in the Los Angeles Times: "Jersild's language is cool and spare, her details muted, a style that serves her heart-thumping main character well, taking him, and us, to an ending that unfolds itself naturally, with a deliberate and excusable echo of James Joyce's The Dead.