Jennifer O’Grady's plays have won the Henley Rose Award, the NEWvember Festival Dublin and the MTWorks Newborn Festival competitions and Heartland Theatre Company's 10-Minute Play Contest, and have been Finalists or Semifinalists for the O'Neill Playwrights Conference, the Newvember Festival, BETC's Generations Award, the Austin Film Festival Playwriting Award and Little Fish Theatre's Pick of the Vine. Her plays have been produced or developed by The Irish Repertory Theatre, Rover Dramawerks, Heartland Theatre Co, 13th Street Repertory Theatre, Monster Box Theatre, AboutFace Ireland, White Mouse Theatre Productions, Twilight Theatre Productions, Manhattan Theatre Works, Wild Rumpus Productions and other theaters. Her work is published in The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2017 and 2016 (Smith and Krause), The Best Women's Stage Monologues 2017 and 2014 (Smith and Krause), and Best Contemporary Monologues for Women 18-35 (Applause Theatre & Cinema Books). In 2018 Jennifer was selected as a mentee in playwriting by AWP's Writer2Writer Program.

Jennifer is also a widely published poet and the author of two poetry books, WHITE (Mid-List Press First Series Award) and EXCLUSIONS & LIMITATIONS (Plume Editions/MadHat Press, 2018). Her poems have been taught, set to music, anthologized and featured in numerous places including Harper's, The New Republic, The Writer's Almanac, Poetry Daily, The Kenyon Review, Poetry and American Poetry: The Next Generation.

A first-gen Irish-American and second-gen Italian-American, Jennifer grew up in New York City and earned a BA from Vassar, where she won awards for her writing, and an MFA from Columbia University. She lives with her husband, son and daughter near New York City. (www.jenniferogrady.net)