EventsThe New Social Environment#1233
Morgan Jerkins: Zeal
Featuring Jerkins and Stephen Bell
Wednesday, May 21, 2025 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific
These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.
Writer Morgan Jerkins joins writer Stephen Bell for a conversation.
In this Talk
Morgan Jerkins

Photo by Sire Leo Lamar-Becker
Morgan Jerkins is the author of Caul Baby, Wandering in Strange Lands, and the New York Times bestseller This Will Be My Undoing. Jerkins has taught at Columbia and Princeton Universities, and has written for The New Yorker, the New York Times, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, and the Guardian, among many others. She lives in New York.
Stephen Patrick Bell

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Stephen Patrick Bell (he/him) is a writer, editor, and producer raised in New York by Jamaican immigrants, currently based in Chicago where he produces shows for The Moth StorySLAM and 2nd Story. A 2022 Lambda Literary Fellow in fiction, a Summer 2023 Tin House fellow, and a 2024 Kenyon Review Writers Workshop attendee, Stephen serves as the Interviews Editor at Foglifter Journal and Press. His work has appeared in Harper’s Bazaar, Interview Magazine, The Chicago Review of Books, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. He is currently working on a novel.
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