Jennifer Crystal, MFA

Jennifer Crystal is a health writer, educator, and patient advocate in Boston. Her work has been featured in The Boston Globe, Cognoscenti, and many other major publications. She runs the Writing to Heal Program at GrubStreet Creative Writing Center, and has taught at Middlebury College and Lesley University. Jennifer holds a BA from Middlebury College and an MFA from Emerson College. She has completed a summer of study at the Bread Loaf School of English, and the Workshop in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University. Her memoir, which explores questions of identity and belonging through the lens of a young person whose life has been involuntarily interrupted, is on submission.