Jennifer Neal is an award-winning American/Australian author and essayist currently living in Berlin. She was born in the U.S. and has lived and worked in Japan, Spain, Mexico, Australia–and now, Germany. She works as a freelance translator and producer, making documentaries about culture, politics, tech, and various human interests. Her writing has appeared in Playboy, NPR, CNN, Gay Magazine, The Willowherb Review, The Establishment, SBS, Atlas Obscura, et cetera. She is the author of Notes on Her Colour, a novel published in May 2023 with Catapult/Penguin Random House Australia, which won the Vulgar Geniuses Award for Fiction. Her memoir, My Pisces Heart, is a non-fiction exploration of Black migration movements told through the lens of her personal experience, and was published in October 2024 with Catapult (North America) to critical acclaim. 

As a performer, she’s walked stages across Europe, Australia, and Asia with her unique brand of witty, observational humor. Most notably, she was an on-screen TV talent for the Explore Parts Unknown series, starring Anthony Bourdain.

Jennifer has been awarded residencies by the MacDowell Artists Colony, Art Omi, and the University of Bayreuth. She is a Pushcart Prize-nominated essayist and is currently writing her third book (and second novel).