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Jennifer Cho Salaff

Jennifer Cho Salaff is a writer and award-winning journalist who grew up in Des Moines, Iowa and Orange County, California but will always be a New Yorker at heart. She went to UC Berkeley, got her master’s at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, and recently received her MFA in creative writing from The New School. Her work has been published in BOMB, Michigan Quarterly Review, Oyster River Pages, and elsewhere. She was a two-time WriteOn NYC teaching fellow and is currently at work on her first novel and writing a memoir on motherhood.

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Jennifer Cho Salaff

Oct 19, 2026

“The Interconnectedness of All Things”: A Conversation with Kawai Strong Washburn

I’m interested in characters that transcend stereotypes. With Naomi, I thought it was important to allow for female rage. It’s something that’s always allowed for men, but never for women. For Amaré—and Raheem, as well—I wanted to write a Black…
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Jennifer Cho Salaff

Apr 16, 2026

Writing the Shit Out of Your Darlings: A Conversation with Ramona Ausubel

“Thinking about the way a river moves while thinking about plot is really helpful, for example. It’s not a straight line. The same way an early draft doesn’t go from page one effortlessly and straightforwardly to page two-hundred and fifty.…

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