Jennifer O’Grady's plays have won the Henley Rose Award, the NEWvember New Plays Festival Dublin and the MTWorks Newborn Festival competitions and Heartland Theater Company's 10-Minute Play Contest; have been finalists or semifinalists for the O'Neil Center Conference, the NEWvember Festival, BETC's Generations Award and Little Fish Theatre's Pick of the Vine; and have advanced in many other competitions. Her work has been produced or developed (or will be) by The Irish Repertory Theatre (as part of its New Works Series), Rover Dramawerks, Heartland Theatre Company, The Bechdel Group, Monster Box Theatre, AboutFace Ireland, 13th Street Repertory Theatre, White Mouse Theatre Productions, Twilight Theatre Productions, Manhattan Theatre Works, Wild Rumpus Productions and other companies. Her plays are published or forthcoming in 30 New Ten-Minute Plays (Applause Theatre & Cinema Books), The Best Women's Stage Monologues 2017, The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2017, The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2016, The Best Women's Stage Monologues 2014 (all Smith and Kraus) and Best Contemporary Monologues for Women 18-35 (Applause). In 2018 Jennifer was selected as a mentee in playwriting by AWP's Writer2Writer Program. Jennifer is also an award-winning poet and author of the 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, Poetry Daily, The Writer's Almanac, The Kenyon Review and American Poetry: The Next Generation. Her poem "Moths" will be featured on BBC Radio 4 in June 2019.

A native New Yorker, Jennifer holds a BA from Vassar, where she won awards for her writing, and an MFA from Columbia University. She lives with her family near New York City. (www.jenniferogrady.net)