Jennifer Banks

Jennifer Banks is the author of Natality: Toward a Philosophy of Birth, published in May 2023 by W.W. Norton and selected as a May Must-Read title by the Next Big Idea Club.  Her work has been featured in The Washington Post, Lithub, Publisher’s Weekly, Kirkus, Current, Comment, Big Think, The Boston Review, The Best American Poetry, and more.  A graduate of Cornell University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she is Senior Executive Editor at Yale University Press where she has acquired books on literature, religion, and philosophy since 2007.  She has also worked at International Creative Management, the Continuum International Publishing Group, and Harvard University Press.