Jennifer Senior is an American journalist and author. She is a staff writer at The Atlantic and has been an Op-Ed columnist for the New York Times since September 2018. Previously, she was a columnist and a book critic at the New York Times, and a staff writer for New York magazine.
In 2022, she won a Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing[1] and a National Magazine Award for Feature Writing, both for the article "What Bobby McIlvaine Left Behind," published in The Atlantic in September 2021.[2] The essay was reprinted in book form in 2023.[3]
She is the author of the 2014 New York Times best-selling book All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood.[4][5][6][7] She graduated from Princeton University, majoring in anthropology, in 1991.[8]
She has written about her experience suffering from Long COVID: "Long COVID symptoms often change. This syndrome is wily, protean—imagine a mischief of mice moving through the walls of your house and laying waste to different bits of circuitry and infrastructure as they go."[9]
^Senior, Jennifer (2023). On Grief: Love, Loss, Memory. New York: Zando Projects (Atlantic Editions). ISBN9781638930747.
^Solomon, Andrew (January 31, 2014). "Under Pressure". The New York Times. Archived from the original on January 5, 2023. Retrieved January 5, 2023 – via NYTimes.com.