Jessica Bruder is an award-winning journalist and an adjunct professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. She is the author of Burning Book (Simon & Schuster, 2007), a narrative nonfiction account of the annual Burning Man festival in Nevada's Black Rock desert. The Los Angeles Times called her writing "quietly poetic."
A frequent contributor to The New York Times, Bruder has also written for The Washington Post and worked as a staff writer at The New York Observer and The Oregonian. She was a senior-level editor at Fortune Small Business magazine until Time Inc. shuttered the magazine in Nov. 2009. She currently edits the weekly Innovation Nation column at CNNMoney.com.
Jessica earned her master's degree at Columbia's journalism school, where she was awarded a Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship and named co-valedictorian of her class. She took her bachelor's degree summa cum laude at Amherst College.
In her spare time, Jessica enjoys snowboarding, playing the electric guitar and deploying puns painful enough to crack your sense of humor and make your ears bleed. She is a mediocre but enthusiastic welder and gets her kicks building large-scale interactive art as a proud member of two artists' collectives, The Madagascar Institute and The Flaming Lotus Girls.
Jessica lives in Brooklyn, N.Y. and dislikes writing about herself in the third person, though she'll suffer the task to make a good impression.
You may download a copy of her digital portfolio here.