Hello.

My name is Morgan Jerkins and I’m the author of four books, This Will Be My Undoing, a New York Times bestseller, Wandering in Strange Lands, Caul Baby, and Zeal.

I am a former editor at Medium’s ZORA, New York Magazine, ESPN’s Andscape fka The Undefeated, and Catapult. I’m also the recipient of two National Magazine Awards and my online work as appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and The Atlantic, among many others.

I held the Picador Professorship at Leipzig University and taught at Princeton and Columbia Universities, as well as Pacific University, and The New School.

I hold a Bachelor’s in Comparative Literature from Princeton University and an MFA from Bennington College. I’m based in Brooklyn.