Keynote Speaker
MORGAN JERKINS is the author of the New York Times bestseller This Will Be My Undoing as well as the critically-acclaimed books, Wandering In Strange Lands and Caul Baby. She holds a Bachelor’s in Comparative Literature from Princeton University and an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars. Jerkins is a Forbes 30 Under 30 Leader in Media alumna, a 2021 ASME Next recipient for her literary initiative at Medium’s ZORA, and an ASME Award winner for co-editing a special issue on the tenth anniversary of Trayvon Martin and the Black Lives Matter movement for New York Magazine.
Her short-form work has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, ELLE, Vogue, and The Atlantic, among many other publications. She’s held professorships at Pacific University, Leipzig University in Germany, Columbia University, and the New School.
Black Madonna, her debut short film, which she wrote and co-directed, was selected at the Big Apple Film Festival, Pan African Film & Arts Festival, and NewFilmmakers Los Angeles.
She’s currently based in New York and she teaches at Princeton University.
