Jennifer Banks

Jennifer Banks is Senior Executive Editor at Yale University Press where she has acquired books on literature, religion, and philosophy since 2007. A graduate of Cornell University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she has also worked at International Creative Management, the Continuum International Publishing Group, and Harvard University Press.

At Yale Press, Jennifer has edited and published books by New York Times best-selling and Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, MacArthur Genius Grant, and Grawemeyer Award-winning authors. Recent publications include Makoto Fujimura’s Art and Faith: A Theology of Making, Susan Bernofsky’s Clairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walser, Sumana Roy’s How I Became a Tree, Desiree Bailey’s What Noise Against the Cane, Christian Wiman’s Home: 100 Poems, Carlos Eire’s They Few: A History of the Impossible, Sophus Helle’s Enheduana: The Complete Poems of the World’s First Author, and Anthony Pinn’s collection To Speak a Defiant Word: Sermons and Speeches on Justice and Transformation by Pauli Murray.

Jennifer is the author of Natality: Toward a Philosophy of Birth, published in May 2023 by W.W. Norton. Her work has been reviewed or featured in The Washington Post, Lithub, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, Current, Comment, Big Think, Commonweal, The Boston Review, The Best American Poetry, and more.