“Joy,” wrote author George Vaillant, “is grief inside out.” Does that mean grief is joy turned inside out? How do we define and work through the grief we experience after someone we care about dies? In this final conference session, Jennifer Senior shares how she came to write a Pulitzer Prize winning article about a family who lost a son on 9/11. Her article became the book On Grief that received praise from Oprah, Cheryl Strayed and John Green. Guiding us through various approaches to coping with loss, Senior also describes the concept of “Life Loves On” that she encountered in writing her article. Join us for this special session with an extraordinary writer, journalist, and observer of what it means to live our lives after we lose someone we love.

Jennifer Senior is a staff writer at The Atlantic and winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing. Prior to joining The Atlantic, she spent five years at The New York Times. Before that, she spent eighteen years as a staff writer for New York Magazine. Her first book, “All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood,” spent eight weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list and has been translated into 12 languages. Her book, “On Grief: Love, Loss, Memory,” is the focus of this session. Senior has been a frequent guest on NPR and television programs, including Morning Joe, Anderson Cooper 360, Good Morning America, and Today.