Jenny Jackson
Official Panelist
2025 Participant · Fiction · Editor · Moderator

Jenny Jackson
Jenny is Vice President, Editorial Director of Fiction at Alfred A. Knopf. She publishes a range of literary and commercial fiction, from Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, to Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven, to Kevin Kwan's Crazy Rich Asians trilogy. She counts Dolly Alderton, J. Courtney Sullivan, Chris Bohjalian, Ayobami Adebayo, Peter Heller, Helen Fielding, Katherine Heiny, Jennifer Close, Caroline O'Donoghue, Marcy Dermansky, Adam Roberts, Marie Rutkoski, Erin Morgenstern, and Lauren Fox among her writers. In 2023 Jenny wrote her own novel, Pineapple Street, which became a New York Times bestseller. She is a graduate of Williams College and lives in Brooklyn Heights.
Book Title(s)
- Pineapple Street: A Novel