Morgan Jerkins
American writer and editor
Morgan Jerkins is an American writer and editor. Her debut essay collection, This Will Be My Undoing, was a New York Times bestseller.
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American Born 1992 in United States, United States
About Morgan Jerkins
Morgan Jerkins was born in 1992 and is an American writer and editor. Her first book, This Will Be My Undoing, appeared in 2018 as a collection of nonfiction essays. She has since published the memoir Wandering in Strange Lands, along with Caul Baby and Zeal. Jerkins is a journalist who has won the National Magazine Award twice, and her articles have appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Vogue and Rolling Stone. She studied at Princeton University and the Bennington Writing Seminars, and has taught at Princeton, Columbia, The New School and Leipzig University in Germany.