Jennifer Massoni Pardini has contributed to magazines since 1999. Currently, she is the Managing Editor of the Nob Hill Gazette. Her writing has also appeared in, among others, The New York Times’ Motherlode, The Washington Post Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, Men’s Journal, California Home & Design, Gentry, Literary Mama, Crawdaddy!, Outside In Literary & Travel Magazine, I Love Chile News, and Vanity Fair, where she was the Associate Editor of Oscar Night: 75 Years of Hollywood Parties (Knopf, 2004). Her personal essays have been anthologized in Pregnancy After Loss Support: Love Letters to Moms Pregnant After Loss (Firefly Grace Publishing, 2020), Three Minus One: Stories of Parents’ Love and Loss (She Writes Press, 2014) and Leave the Lipstick, Take the Iguana: Funny Travel Stories and Strange Packing Tips (Travelers’ Tales, 2012). She has also been a regular contributor to Red Tricycle and Pregnancy After Loss Support.

Jennifer is a 2002 graduate of Boston College and the Columbia Publishing Course. In 2011, she earned her MFA in English and Creative Writing from Mills College, where she won the Amanda Davis MFA Thesis in Fiction Award and the Ardella Mills Prize for Literary Composition. She has written from Boston, London, New York City, San Francisco, Santiago de Chile, Northern Virginia, and her home state of California. After her life took a sudden turn, she put aside a novel and wrote a memoir about her son, coping, and reproductive rights. In his honor, she collects hearts for the Chain-Link Heart Project, often alongside her husband, daughters, and pup.