“Jennifer Senior is surely one of the best writers on the planet.” —Daniel Gilbert
Jennifer Senior is a staff writer at The Atlantic and winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for “Twenty Years Gone,” an unflinching portrait of a family’s reckoning with loss in the 20 years since 9/11. It was published as a stand-alone book in April of 2023 under the title On Grief.
Prior to joining The Atlantic, Jennifer spent five years at The New York Times—first as one of its three daily book critics, then as a columnist for the Opinion page. Before that, she spent eighteen years as a staff writer for New York Magazine, writing profiles and cover stories about politics, social science, and mental health. In addition to the Pulitzer, Jennifer has won a variety of journalism prizes, including two National Magazine Awards, two Front Page Awards, a GLAAD award, and the Erikson Prize in Mental Health Media. (She is also one of the only writers to have been nominated for the National Magazine Award for three years in a row, winning two out of three.) She was a finalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing for “The Ones We Sent Away,” an account of her disabled aunt who was institutionalized as a toddler because of an intellectual disability.
Jennifer is also the author of All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood, which spent eight weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list, was translated into twelve languages, and was named one of Slate’s Top 10 Books of 2014. Her work has been anthologized four times in The Best American Political Writing, and her feature about the suicide of the psychologist Philip Brickman was selected for The Best American Science Writing Of 2021.
Jennifer has been a frequent guest on NPR and numerous television programs, including The Chris Matthews Show, Morning Joe, Washington Journal with Brian Lamb, Anderson Cooper 360, Good Morning America, and Today. She has also been a speaker at TED’s annual conference and the Sydney Opera House.
She lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband and son.
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