Jessica Berger Gross's debut novel HAZEL SAYS NO will be published by Hanover Square/HarperCollins in spring/summer 2025.

Jessica is the author of the memoir Estranged: Leaving Family and Finding Home (Scribner 2017), based on her bestselling Kindle Single of the same name. She’s the editor of the anthology About What Was Lost: 20 Writers on Miscarriage, Healing, and Hope (Plume 2006). Her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Cut, Longreads and many more. She’s written essays on everything from the beauty of going gray to group sex on a kibbutz to working as Bella Abzug's assistant in the 1990s.

After growing up on Long Island and graduating from Vassar College, Jessica lived in NYC’s East Village, Brooklyn, upstate New York, Los Angeles, Cambridge, Brooklyn again, Vancouver, and Brooklyn (again again), before moving to Maine with her husband, a professor at Colby College, and their son. 

Jessica (occasionally) works one-on-one with writers and writing students on developmental edits, manuscript consults, and coaching.

Her literary agent is Henry Dunow at Dunow, Carlson & Lerner Literary Agency.

For television/film, she's represented by Jason Richman and Orly Greenberg at United Talent Agency.