Jenny Bartoy is a French American freelance writer and editor. She writes about books, estrangement, motherhood, and more.

She is the editor of Broken Free, an anthology of essays and poetry about family estrangement, forthcoming from Catapult (2026). Her work appears in The Boston Globe, The Seattle Times, CrimeReads, The Rumpus, Room, Under the Gum Tree, Chicago Review of Books, the anthology Sharp Notions: Essays from the Stitching Life, and a variety of other publications.

Jenny hosts book events, teaches writing and editing workshops online and locally in the Pacific Northwest, and serves on the editorial board for the literary organization Voices of Tacoma. Previously, she was the managing editor of Literary Mama and Quiltfolk magazine and the editorial manager for the Artful Editor agency.

Jenny holds a master’s degree in sociocultural anthropology from Columbia University, a bachelor’s degree in film from the University of Texas at Austin, and a certificate in editing from the University of Washington.

You can find her at jennybartoy.com, on Instagram @jenny.bartoy, or on Bluesky @jennybartoy.bsky.social.