Jennifer Neal

Jennifer Neal is an American and Australian author, journalist, visual artist, and occasional standup comedian currently based in Berlin. Her work has appeared on NPR, Atlas Obscura, Playboy, Roxane Gay’s GAY Magazine, The Establishment, and many others. She has also made media appearances for Deutsche Welle and Roads & Kingdoms, the latter saw her dispatched to Southeast Asia on behalf of Anthony Bourdain. She was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2019 for her essay In Search of Better Skies published by the Willowherb Review, and she is a 2021 MacDowell Fellow. Her first novel will be published with Catapult (US) and Penguin Randomhouse (AU) in spring 2023. Photo copyright: Janine Kuehn