I’m a writer whose work has appeared in the Iowa Review, The Yale Review, the New England Review, the Georgia Review, and others. My essays “Alice and Jean,” “Lighter than Air” and “Parrot on a Stone Plinth” were awarded Notable distinctions in the Best American Essays of 2019, 2021, and 2023. My debut essay collection, Object Lessons, was a finalist for the Yale Nonfiction Book Prize in 2024, and I was the recipient of the 2019 New England Review Award for Emerging Writers.

I grew up in Indianapolis, cycled through twenty-one apartments in New York City, and currently live in New Haven, CT. Before becoming a writer, I spent a decade as a composer and curator of electroacoustic music, presenting at venues and galleries such as Merkin Concert Hall, Roulette, White Box Gallery, the Flea Theater, and the River to River Festival, as well as a number of sadly defunct spaces (RIP Tonic, Galapagos Arts Space, Chelsea Art Museum, Monkeytown, and many other precious spaces for adventures in sound).

I hold a B.A. in English and Music from Yale and a Ph.D in Music Composition from the City University of New York. I’m currently a Lecturer in Writing at Yale.

Contact: jennifer.stock@yale.edu