Meet Jenny

Yes, Jenny is a mom, but mostly, Jenny is a writer. Her debut collection, At or Near the Surface (Fourteen Hills Press, 2008), won the Michael Rubin Book Award, and her inclusive screed on pregnancy, postpartum-ness, and parenthood, You Look Tired: An Excruciatingly Honest Guide to New Parenthood, came out during the pandemic (not recommended) (Running Press, 2021). Then it was translated into Turkish and released in Turkey as Biraz Yorgun Gibisin (highly recommended).

Jenny has published fiction in Boulevard, the Northwest Review, the Southwest Review, Salt Hill, and other journals and has written and reported for Guernica, Salon, the Guardian US, and Bitch, among others. Her work has been anthologized and selected for publication by Steve Almond and Michelle Richmond, and she has received fellowships from the Ragdale Foundation and the Tomales Bay Writing by Writers Workshop, a grant from San Francisco State University, and a scholarship from the Community of Writers. Her story "Thieves" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. For three

years, she was the pregnancy and parenting columnist for Romper.

Jenny has a bachelor's degree from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism and an M.F.A. in creative writing from San Francisco State University. She has taught at The Writing Salon, San Francisco State University, UC Berkeley, and the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In a former life she was a fact-checker for Sunset and Dwell and an intern for Mother Jones and Ms. In this life, after becoming the first full-time copy editor for both Common Sense Media and KQED, she is a copy editor for the Guardian US. She likes words. A lot.

As Jenny True, the voice of her blog, she has been recognized on the sidewalk by a mom driving by in a car, and a mom on a plane. Jenny is represented by the best agent in the world, Laura Lee Mattingly, at Present Perfect Literary.