Jodi M. Savage is the author of The Death of a Jaybird: Essays on Mothers and Daughters and the Things They Leave Behind. Her essays have appeared in The Offing, Oprah Daily, The Huffington Post, Catapult, Kweli Journal, the VIDA Review, and other publications. Jodi is a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee, and her essays have also been nominated for Best of the Net and listed as a notable essay in The Best American Essays 2019. Jodi also co-hosted “The Work Rundown,” a podcast about the experiences of Black women in the workplace.
Jodi received The Aging Mind Fellowship from the Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow and a fellowship from the Storyknife Writers Retreat. She has attended workshops at the Tin House Winter Workshop, Rivendell Writers’ Colony, Catapult, and Gotham Writers Workshop.
Jodi has taught independent writing workshops, and creative writing at New York University. As a current Goldwater Fellow at NYU, she facilitates poetry workshops for residents at Roosevelt Island’s Coler-Goldwater Hospital.
Jodi graduated from Barnard College and Seton Hall University School of Law. She is an MFA candidate in Creative Nonfiction at New York University.