Morgan Jerkins ’14

Morgan Jerkins ’14 graduated from Princeton with an AB in Comparative Literature, specializing in late nineteenth century Russian literature and Post World War II Japanese literature and an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars. Her work on race, gender, and culture has been featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, and The New Republic, among many others. Her debut book, This Will Be My Undoing: Living At The Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist, an essay collection, debuted on the New York Times Bestsellers List. She has two more books, an autoethnography and a novel, forthcoming from Harper Collins. She is based in Harlem, NY.