Morgan Jerkins - Picador Guest Professor in the winter semester of 2019/20

Morgan Jerkins is the author of This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America, which became a New York Times bestseller, a New York Times Editors' Choice Pick, a Barnes & Noble Discover Pick, and was longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. Her short form work has been published in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, Esquire, and The Guardian, among many others. A graduate of Princeton University and Bennington College Writing Seminars, Jerkins is a former Associate Editor at Catapult and currently teaches nonfiction at Columbia University's MFA program.