Jennifer O’Grady is a New York-based, award-winning playwright and poet. Her plays include CHARLOTTE'S LETTERS (Henley Rose Award; NEWvember Festival Dublin; O'Neill Semifinalist and other honors); PARANORMAL LOVE (MTWorks Newborn Winner; Newvember Finalist; Pandora's Box runner-up); ELLERY (selected for The Best Women's Stage Monologues 2017 and a Bechdel Group selection); and PERSEPHONE (selected for The Best New Ten-Minute Plays 2019). Her plays have been produced and developed by theaters across the U.S., the U.K, and in Dublin, Ireland, including Rover Dramawerks, Heartland Theatre Company, Weathervane Playhouse, The Hive Collaborative, 6th Street Playhouse, The Bechdel Group, Monster Box Theater, Gi60, OnStage Atlanta, The PlayGround Experiment and many others, as well as off-Broadway by the Irish Repertory Theatre. Her plays are also published or forthcoming in The Best New Ten-Minute Plays 2021, The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2017, The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2016, The Best Women's Stage Monologues 2014, Best Contemporary Monologues for Women 18-35, Stage It 3: Twenty Ten-Minute Plays, and Feels Blind Literary.

Jennifer is also the author of two collections of poetry, WHITE (Mid-List First Series Award for Poetry) and EXCLUSIONS & LIMITATIONS (Plume Editions/MadHat Press, 2018). Her poems are taught, anthologized, set to music and featured in numerous places, including Harper’s, The New Republic, The Kenyon Review, The Writer's Almanac, BBC Radio 4, Poetry Daily and American Poetry: The Next Generation. Other poetry honors include a Billee Murray Denny Award, a Greenwall Award from The Academy of American Poets, and Pushcart Prize nominations.

Born and raised in New York City, Jennifer earned a BA from Vassar, where she won awards for her writing, and an MFA in poetry from Columbia University. She lives near New York City with her husband, son, and daughter, two dogs, two cats and a rabbit. (www.jenniferogrady.net)