Baumgardner, Jennifer

Jennifer Baumgardner is a writer, filmmaker, and founder of Dottir Press, which has published more than 20 titles for children and adults since 2018. Her books about contemporary feminist issues include Look Both Ways, Grassroots, Abortion & Life, and Manifesta (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). She also directed and produced the feature-length documentaries I Had an Abortion and It Was Rape, and created the I Had an Abortion project. Originally from the Midwest, she has lived in downtown New York since her days as an intern at Ms. magazine (c.1992).