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

She is the editor of NO CONTACT, an anthology of about family estrangement, forthcoming from Catapult in April 2026. Her work appears in The Boston Globe, The Seattle Times, CrimeReads, The Rumpus, Room, Under the Gum Tree, Chicago Review of Books, and several anthologies.

Jenny hosts book events, teaches writing and editing workshops online and locally in the Pacific Northwest. She previously served on the editorial board for Voices of Tacoma and the editorial committee for Creative Colloquy. 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 or Threads @jenny.bartoy, or on Bluesky @jennybartoy.bsky.social.