Jennifer O’Grady is an award-winning playwright and poet. Her full-length plays have won the Henley Rose Award, the NEWvember Festival Dublin and the MTWorks Newborn Festival competitions; have been finalists or semifinalists for the NEWvember Festival, the O’Neill Center Playwrights Conference and BETC’s Generations Award; and have advanced in many other competitions including the Austin Film Festival's Playwriting Award, Gulfshore Playhouse's New Works Festival and The Ground Floor at Berkeley Rep. Her short plays have won Heartland Theatre Company's 10-Minute Play Contest and Stage It's 10-Minute Play Contest and have been shortlisted by companies in the U.S. and U.K. Her plays have been produced or developed by the Irish Repertory Theatre, Rover Dramawerks, The Bechdel Group, Heartland Theatre Company, Monster Box Theatre, White Mouse Theatre Productions, 13th Street Repertory Theatre, AboutFace Ireland, Stage It, 29th Street Playwrights Collective, Wild Rumpus Productions, Yellow Rose Productions, Phoenix Theatre, The Factory Theatre at Greenville University and other companies, and are published or forthcoming in 30 New Ten-Minute Plays, Stage It 3, 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 and Best Contemporary Monologues for Women 18-35. In 2018 Jennifer was selected as a mentee in playwriting by AWP’s Writer2Writer Program.

She is also a widely published 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, anthologized, set to music and featured in numerous places including Harper’s, The New Republic, NRP, Poetry Daily, The Kenyon Review and American Poetry: The Next Generation. Her poem “Moths” will be featured on BBC Radio 4 in June 2019.

Jennifer earned a BA from Vassar, where she won awards for her writing, and an MFA from Columbia University. She lives near New York City with her husband, son, and daughter, two dogs, two cats and a rabbit.