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Jennifer Young

New York
Covers:  Motherhood, family, relationships, marriage, college and university, long-term survivorship, and nature writing

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Jennifer Young is a contributing writer, essayist, and educator based in New York, writing about long-term survivorship, parenting, relationships, nature, and higher education. As a melanoma survivor and member of the National Cancer Survivors Day Foundation Speakers Bureau, she brings lived experience to her work based on identity, connection, and what it means to live beyond diagnosis.

A former Children's Literature Fellow at the Lichtenstein Center at Stony Brook Southampton, she also writes…

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Hell ya

Who's your favorite fictional journalist?

Phil Connors

What does it mean to be a journalist?

Journalism is integrity first, empathy always, and an open mind big enough to hold more than one truth at once.