Jessie Petrow-Cohen is a Pushcart Prize winning writer. She was selected by Melissa Febos as the winner of the Kenyon Review’s Nonfiction Contest and by Brian Turner as the winner of the Indiana Review’s Half K Prize. She was also a finalist for the Annie Dillard Award in Creative Nonfiction and the American Short Fiction Halifax Ranch Prize. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Brevity, Bellingham Review, The Common, Fugue, Lumina, Working Artist Mag, her Substack “Claiming Writerhood,” and elsewhere. Her work has been supported by the Vermont Studio Center, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Ragdale, and The Kenyon Review Residential Writing Workshop.

Jessie studied Psychology and Chemistry at Duke University and currently works in Strategy at The New York Times. She is an amateur flying trapeze artist and cares deeply about her friends.