Jessie Petrow-Cohen

Jessie Petrow-Cohen is a Pushcart Prize winning writer. Her debut essay collection, This Middle Living, was selected as the winner of the 2026 Autumn House Nonfiction Prize and is forthcoming from Autumn House Press. She was selected by Melissa Febos as the winner of The Kenyon Review’s Nonfiction Contest and by Brian Turner as the winner of The Indiana Review’s 1/2K Prize. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Brevity, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a Peter Taylor Fellowship at The Kenyon Review and has received support from the Vermont Studio Center and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.