Jessie Petrow-Cohen is a Pushcart Prize winning writer, editor, and educator. 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, her Substack “Claiming Writerhood,” and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a Peter Taylor Fellowship at The Kenyon Review and has received support from the Vermont Studio Center, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Ragdale Residency.

Jessie studied Psychology and Chemistry at Duke University. She is currently Director of Strategy at The New York Times and the incoming Writer in Public Schools Fellow at New York University’s MFA in Creative Writing. She is an amateur flying trapeze artist and cares deeply about her friends.