Jennifer Kabat

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Awarded a Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant for her criticism, Jennifer Kabat's essays have appeared in Granta, Frieze, BOMB, Harper’s, Virginia Quarterly Review, McSweeney's and The White Review, among others. She teaches in the arts writing MFA at SVA and at the New School. Her writing has been included in exhibitions at Arnfolfini (Bristol UK), Index (Stockholm Sweden) and The Poor Farm (Little Wolf, WI), where her ongoing collaboration with the artist Kate Newby was featured. As well as being a guest critic at Yale and giving talks on her own work, she's also given lectures on Isa Genzken in Vienna, chaired discussions on AIDs and activism  and given a talk with her best friend from junior high, the artist Liz Collins, at the Tang Museum in Saratoga Springs. Jennifer is working on a book on grief and modernism; she lives in rural upstate New York and serves on her local fire department.

Prize anthology mentions

Best American Essays 2018

Best American Essays 2019*

Best American Essays 2020*

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