Jennifer Sky

Jennifer Sky is a writer of fiction, nonfiction and believer in magical things. A former model and actress, her work has appeared in print or online at Tin House, The Rumpus, Interview Magazine, Electric Literature, Freerange Nonfiction’s Freshly Hatched, 12th Street, in short story anthology Love Magick and others. She lives in Brooklyn and is working on a memoir.

As a model: Jennifer traveled extensively and worked for such magazines as SEVENTEEN, YM, ALLURE, ELLE, VOGUE BAMBINI, was on several covers including SASSY and MAXIM, and did campaigns for CALIFORNIA TAN, PEPE JEANS, DANNON, BABY RUTH, and FORD. At nineteen she returned to New York to study acting, then relocated to Los Angeles for a contract roll on GENERAL HOSPITAL.

As an actress: She worked on BUFFY, THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, CSI: LAS VEGAS, CHARMED, had reoccurring characters on CSI: MIAMI, FASTLANE, XENA, and was the title character on cult Sci-Fi series CLEOPATRA 2525. Additionally, she shot such movies as SHALLOW HAL, MY LITTLE EYE and NEVER DIE ALONE, among others. To see Jennifer’s complete acting resume, please see below.

As a writer: Jen began studying writing with Tod Goldberg and PEN nominee Samantha Dunn at UCLA where she focused on memoir and when on to study poetry and YA fiction with Francesca Lia Block. In 2010, she moved to New York City to attend The New School’s Riggio Honors Writing Program and study with such authors as Mary Gaitskill, Sigrid Nunez, Elizabeth Gaffney, Zia Jaffrey, Susan Shapiro, and Paul Violi. Jennifer works as a freelance writer.

Because of an illness Jennifer is now recovered from involving her liver, she became very involved in the organ donation community, specifically Donate Life America, the nonprofit charity branch of the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), and has written broadly about the necessity for universal health care.