Jessie Petrow-Cohen is a Pushcart Prize winning writer. Her essay On Molting was selected by Melissa Febos as the winner of the 2024 Kenyon Review’s Short Nonfiction Contest. Her work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Brevity, Bellingham Review, The Indiana Review, The Common, Fugue, Lumina, Working Artist Mag, The Fulcrum, and elsewhere. Her work has been supported by the Vermont Studio Center, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, 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.