Jessica Weisberg is the author of The Wild Sisters forthcoming from Simon & Schuster in May 2027, and Asking for a Friend: Three Centuries of Advice on Life, Love, Money, and Other Burning Questions from a Nation Obsessed.
Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Harper’s, Elle, The New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, and has been nominated for a National Magazine Award for public interest journalism.
Weisberg is a senior producer at Serial Productions/The New York Times, where she creates narrative and investigative audio series. Her reporting has taken her across subjects including criminal justice, national security, immigration, health, business, and child welfare.
She began her career on the editorial staff of The New Yorker. She studied comparative literature at Brown University and fiction writing at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
She is represented by Amelia Atlas at CAA.
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