Jessica Petrow-Cohen

Jessica Petrow-Cohen is a Pushcart Prize winning creative nonfiction writer and the winner of the 2024 Kenyon Review’s Short Nonfiction Contest judged by Melissa Febos. Her senate testimony on behalf of same-sex marriage was published in The New York Times and in former Senator Raymond Lesniak’s book, “What’s Love Got To Do With It?” Her writing has also appeared or is forthcoming in publications including The Kenyon Review, Brevity, The Washington Post, The Common, Fugue, Lumina, Working Artist Mag, and her Substack, “Claiming Writerhood.” Her work has been supported by The Virginia Center for Creative Arts, The Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, and The Vermont Studio Center.