Jennifer Block has been a journalist for ten years, writing and editing
for magazines, newsweeklies, and blogs, frequently covering women's
health and politics and the intersection of the two.
Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The Village Voice, Time, The Nation, Babble.com, ELLE, ReadyMade, and many other publications. Her investigative pieces have tackled such provocative issues as police harassment of street prostitutes, rape in the military, abortion tourism, and the politics of sex ed.
A former editor at Ms. magazine, Jennifer was also a senior editor at the eco-lifestyle magazine Plenty and served as an editor of the revised classic, Our Bodies, Ourselves. Since the publication of Pushed, she writes and speaks frequently on maternity care issues. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.