Jennifer Neal is an award-winning American/Australian author, artist, musician, and occasional standup comedian (really) currently living in Berlin. She was born in the U.S. and has lived and worked in Japan, Spain, Mexico, Australia–and now, Germany. She works as a freelance translator and producer, making documentaries about culture, politics, tech, and various human interests. Her writing has appeared in Playboy, NPR, CNN, Gay Magazine, The Willowherb Review, The Establishment, SBS, Atlas Obscura, et cetera et cetera. She is the author of Notes on Her Colour, a novel published in May 2023 with Catapult/Penguin Random House Australia, and My Pisces Heart, a non-fiction exploration of Black migration movements told through the lens of her personal experience, to be published in October 2024 with Catapult (North America).
As a performer, she’s walked stages across Europe, Australia, and Asia with her unique brand of witty, observational humor. Most notably, she was an on-screen TV talent for the Explore Parts Unknown series, starring Anthony Bourdain.
Jennifer is a MacDowell Fellow and a Pushcart Prize-nominated essayist. In January 2025, she will begin a fellowship at the Universität Bayreuth as an artist in residence while she works on her third book (and second novel).
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