Jerkins joins ESPN as senior editor for culture

New York Times best-selling author Morgan Jerkins has joined ESPN’s The Undefeated as senior editor for culture where she will be leading a team focused on long- and short-form expository features on African-American music, theater, film and other forms of entertainment.

She and her team will also be responsible for culturally relevant content across ESPN and other Walt Disney Company platforms, including live events and television specials.

Previously, Jerkins was a senior editor at ZORA digital magazine Medium. Prior to that, she was an associate editor for Catapult, an independent publisher that hosts a digital magazine and writing workshops.

She has also had her work featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Esquire, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, VOGUE, The Rolling Stone, Ebony, Talking Points Memo and Vulture, among many others.

Jerkins regularly teaches at Columbia University’s MFA program in nonfiction and previously held the Guest Professorship Picador Chair at Leipzig University in Germany.

Jerkins graduated from Princeton University with a Bachelor’s degree in comparative literature. She went on to earn a Master of fine arts degree from Bennington College in Vermont.