Bio
Hey Mom! My name is Jen, and I'm a writer. You may have seen my stuff in The New Yorker, or on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, where I was a staff writer for four seasons. Before that, I was a senior writer for The Onion, where I also headed the editorial video department as a writer, director and producer. My debut short story collection Big Time came out in 2021, and my forthcoming debut novel will also be published by Random House.
Beyond The New Yorker, my writing has appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine, Selected Shorts, Air Mail, Glamour, McSweeney’s and elsewhere, and I have written and developed television and film for HBO, MAX, WB and Peacock. I also do voiceover and am proud to be the announcer for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
I have an MFA in Playwriting and Screenwriting from Northwestern University and a BA in English from Barnard College.