Jenny Pritchett (aka Jenny True) is the pregnancy and parenting columnist for Romper ("Dear Jenny") and the author of "You Look Tired: An Excruciatingly Honest Guide to New Parenthood" (Running Press, 2021). She and her work have been featured in the San Francisco Chronicle, Publishers Weekly, Guernica, Salon, Bitch, Working Mother, the Longest Shortest Time and Manuscript Academy podcasts, Elle, and Scary Mommy. Jenny's story collection, At or Near the Surface (Fourteen Hills Press, 2008), won the Michael Rubin Book Award. She has published fiction in Boulevard, the Northwest Review, the Southwest Review, Salt Hill, and other journals. Her fiction has been anthologized and selected for publication by Steve Almond and Michelle Richmond, and she has been the recipient of fellowships from the Ragdale Foundation and the Tomales Bay Writing by Writers Workshop, a grant from San Francisco State University, and a scholarship from the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. Her story "Thieves" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Jenny has a bachelor's degree from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism and an M.F.A. in creative writing from San Francisco State University. She has taught creative writing at the Bay Area's Writing Salon, San Francisco State University, and the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In a former life she was a fact-checker for Sunset and Dwell and an intern for Mother Jones and Ms. As Jenny True, she has been recognized on the sidewalk by a mom driving by in a car, and a mom on a plane.