Jen is the proud author of Confessions of a Casting Director, published by HarperCollins. She has written op-eds and personal essays for USA Today, Newsweek, the NY Daily News, and short fiction in the Jewish Literary Journal, Of the Book, and Kveller and publishes essays on animation and running at Everything is Animated on Substack and on Medium. She holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU and received an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant for her TV script Lucy in the Sky, a short film starring Whoopi Goldberg. She is a two-time recipient of the Will and Jada Smith Family Foundation Award and has twice won the Fusion Film Festival TV writing award.