Jessica Lahey
Teacher, writer and recovery coach
Jessica Lahey is a teacher and writer who covers education and parenting. She wrote The Gift of Failure, a New York Times bestseller.
2 summaries 35 min of listening
About Jessica Lahey
Jessica Lahey is a teacher and writer whose articles on education, parenting and child welfare have appeared in The Atlantic, Vermont Public Radio and the New York Times. She also works as an addiction recovery coach. Her book The Gift of Failure became a New York Times bestseller. Lahey has taught high school English and writing in Vermont. She studied Comparative Literature at the University of Massachusetts and earned a law degree at the University of North Carolina School of Law, focusing on juvenile and education law. She was a Pushcart Prize nominee in 2019. She has co-hosted the #AmWriting podcast with KJ Dell'Antonia and Sarina Bowen. Her books in our catalog are The Gift of Failure and The Addiction Inoculation.