Jennifer Stock

Jennifer Stock is an essayist whose work has appeared in the Iowa Review, The Yale Review, the New England Review, the Georgia Review, and others. Her essays “Alice and Jean,” “Lighter than Air” and “Parrot on a Stone Plinth” were awarded Notable distinctions in the Best American Essays of 2019, 2021, and 2023. She’s the recipient of the 2019 New England Review Award for Emerging Writers. She’s currently at work on an essay collection called Coming of Age in The Capitalocene.

Selected Publications

- The Yale Review, “Broken Cadillac: On Capitalism and Inheritance ” 2025

- The Yale Review, “Alice and Jean: On Instagram and Consumerism”   2022

- Salmagundi, “Lighter than Air” 2019 

- The Georgia Review, “The Beatitude of Nowhere,” 2018

- New England Review, “Parrot on a Stone Plinth” 2018

- Iowa Review, “Self-Storage” 2018

updated January 2026