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Jennifer Gersten

Jennifer Gersten is a violinist and writer from Queens, New York. Her essays, journalism, and criticism have appeared in the Washington Post, Guernica, and the Awl, and she has been an on-air essayist for the PBS NewsHour. Gersten is the winner of the 2018 Rubin Prize in Music Criticism, a $10,000 award given by the nation’s top critics for demonstrating “outstanding promise” in the field. She is pursuing a DMA in violin performance at Stony Brook University.

Mar/Apr 2019

Recognitions

By Jennifer Gersten

Long before the book was published, its cover had become impossible to avoid. The color was a pancreatic pink that was popular these days, a cloying reminder in troubled times […]