Jen Murphy Parker is a writer based in San Francisco where she lives with her husband and four kids. Her writing explores what exists in the middle of parenting, of health, of life. Fourteen years into raising a child with severe epilepsy, she is always looking for the both-ness: the many ways we end up the sum of our best luck and worst experiences. Her work has appeared in Hobart, Heimat Review, Cleaver Magazine, among others. Subscribe to her Substack here.
Writing
Cleaver Magazine, “How a Boy Could Be”
Heimat Review, “The Least Happy Child”
Hobart, “The Streak”
Medium, “The Fun and Games of College Tours”
Substack, once admired by Callie Garnett at Bloomsbury for its “shrewd, palliative voice and thoughtful approach to the big questions found in life’s smallest moments.”