Jenny has performed “I Got Sick Then I Got Better” in theaters (including New York Theatre Workshop, the Geva, Berkshire Shakespeare Festival, the Long Wharf, and Barrington Stage) and at major health conferences, fundraisers, hospitals, and women’s groups across the country and in Canada. “I Got Sick Then I Got Better” is a recipient of Gilda’s Club’s “It’s Always Something” award. Jenny been a national spokeswoman for the CDC’s popular “Inside Knowledge” cancer awareness campaign, featured in its TV and print campaigns, and has served on the national board of the Ovarian Cancer National Alliance (now the Ovarian Cancer National Research Foundation).

Andy Borowitz has called Jenny “one of the funniest writers in America.” Her bestselling collection of humor pieces and personal essays, “Would Everybody Please Stop?”, was a finalist for the Thurber Prize. She is a regular contributor to the New Yorker, and her articles and essays have appeared for years in the New York Times, Vogue, Esquire, the Wall Street Journal, Good Housekeeping, Next Avenue, More, and many other publications and anthologies, including The Fifty Funniest American Writers (The Library of America, edited by Andy Borowitz).

Her true-life stories have been featured on NPR’s Moth Radio Hour and PRX’s “Selected Shorts”.  As an actress, Jenny’s credits include the off-Broadway productions of Nora and Delia Ephron’s “Love, Loss, and What I Wore,” and of Deb Margolin’s “Imagining Madoff”. She is featured in the web series “All Downhill From Here.”

Jenny lives in West Tisbury, Massachusetts, where she serves as the literary manager for the Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse. She has two children—Halley, a playwright and actress, and Julie, who cares for pets—and is hugely proud of both of them. Read Less ^