Jenna Wortham is a writer living in Brooklyn, New York. She is a staff writer for the New York Times Magazine and co-host of the podcast ‘Still Processing.’ She is working on an anthology called “Black Futures” with the iridescent Kimberly Drew that will be published by the Random House imprint OneWorld in 2019. She is also working on a manuscript about the experience of inhabiting a body, work that she began in 2017, as the Zora Neale Hurston Fellow at the inaugural Jack Jones Literary Arts retreat in the Southwestern desert. She was recently awarded a MacDowell Fellowship for the Fall of 2018. She is also currently deepening her skills as an energy healer and plant medicine worker.