Jodi M. Savage is the author of The Death of a Jaybird: Essays on Mothers and Daughters and the Things They Leave Behind. She is a writer and attorney in New York City. Her essays have appeared in Oprah Daily, The Huffington Post, Catapult, Kweli Journal, the VIDA Review, Women’s Studies Quarterly, and other places. Jodi’s essays have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize twice, Best of the Net 2020, 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 graduated from Barnard College and Seton Hall University School of Law. She is a Goldwater Fellow and MFA candidate in Creative Nonfiction at New York University.
She can be found on Twitter and Instagram as @jodimsavage.