Jenn’s journalism has appeared in the New York Times, The Washington Post Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, Fast Company, and The Daily Beast.

Her book, The Year of the Gadfly (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) was chosen as a 2012 Best Book by Kirkus Reviews and Self Magazine. Inheriting The Holy Land (Ballantine, 2005), which follows Seeds in Israel and Palestine, won Moment Magazine’s Non-Fiction Award for Young Writers.

Jenn was a member of the American Delegation to the Seeds of Peace Camp in 1996 and returned as a counselor.

A native of Washington, D.C., Jennifer now lives in Brooklyn with all the other writers, and teaches writing at Columbia University.