about

Jenni Zellner is an editor, writer, and freelance consultant. She has held editorial roles at Lonely Planet, Callisto Media, and Penguin Random House, where she collaborated with authors, visual artists, and entertainment brands such as Atari, Disney, Dungeons & Dragons, Marvel Studios, and The New York Times to create illustrated gift books and product suites. She holds an MFA in Fiction from NYU's low-residency MFA program based in Paris, France, as well as a BA in English Literature from Ithaca College. She lives in Brooklyn, where she is working on several writing projects.

Honors

FELLOWSHIPS & grants

• One Story Writer’s Circle (2024)

• Speculative Literature Foundation’s Gulliver Travel Grant, Honorable Mention (2019)

• NYU Provost’s Global Research Initiatives Grant (2019)

• Penguin Random House’s Emerging Editor Fellowship (2018)

conferences, festivals & residencies

• Tin House Summer Workshop | Reed College, Portland, OR (July 2025)

• One Story Writers Conference | Poet’s House, New York, NY (August 2024)

• NYU’s Low-Residency MFA Program | Paris, France (January 2018 — January 2020)