Jennifer Kabat’s THE EIGHTH MOON and NIGHTSHINING are forthcoming from Milkweed Editions in 2024 and 2025. Her essays are sweeping histories that interleave socialism, modernism and science with her own longing for a way to understand socialism and democracy today. Included in Best American Essays, her writing has also appeared in McSweeney’s, BOMB, The New York Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Believer, Virginia Quarterly Review, Granta and The White Review, among others. She frequently writes for Frieze and has contributed to artists’ monographs and museum catalogues including London’s Victoria & Albert museum.

NIGHTSHINING has been supported by a Silvers Foundation grant, and early research from the book was a finalist for Notting Hill Editions’ essay prize and subsequently published by Harper’s. THE EIGHTH MOON grew from an essay in Granta.

She often collaborates with artists, including working with Kate Newby on a rolling site-specific project The January February March, and with Marlene McCarty in Buffalo, NY exploring capitalism, modernism and invasive weeds. For Coffee House Press, she wrote “A Dangerous Ornamental” on filing for unemployment and foraging for weeds, examining structural unemployment.

Her writing has been supported by grants from SUNY Albany, NYSCA and NYFA as well as a residency at Headlands Center for the Arts. Part of the core faculty of the design research MA at SVA, she is on the advisory board for the poetry collective Ugly Duckling Presse. An apprentice herbalist, she is most proud of serving on her local fire department.