American
Jennifer Senior is an American journalist and author. She is a staff writer at The Atlantic and a former columnist and book critic for The New York Times, and earlier worked as a writer at New York magazine. Her first book, All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood (2014), examined how children change their parents' lives and spent eight weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Her 2021 Atlantic article "What Bobby McIlvaine Left Behind," later retitled "Twenty Years Gone," followed the family of a man killed in the September 11 attacks and won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing. It was reissued as the book On Grief in 2023. Senior has also received a GLAAD award, two Front Page awards and the Erikson Prize in Mental Health Media. Her work is known for close reporting on private experience, especially family life, loss and the ways people carry it.