Jeanette Mrozinski writes about sex, work, religion, and our intrinsic value as humans.

Mrozinski started working at age eight assembling promotional keychains on her family’s living room floor in the rust belt Midwest. Since then, she’s worked as a stripper and government bureaucrat, bakery girl and communications director, factory laborer, yoga instructor, journalist—and a few dozen other gigs besides.

Following a Fulbright in Vietnam, she went onto an award-winning career in science and investigative journalism, chronicling the decommissioning of the country’s largest particle accelerator and sparking public opposition to one of Illinois’ biggest coal plants. She’s spent the last decade in municipal communications, convincing her neighbors they like it when their taxes go up.

Now an MFA candidate in Nonfiction at Washington University in St. Louis, she has been published in Short Reads and is the winner of the Australian Book Review’s 2025 Calibre Essay Prize, the first American to ever earn the prize.

Mrozinski currently lives in Nashville, where she manages the world’s biggest (and possibly only) queer cozy math rock band, Together Breakfast. She’s previously served on the associate board for StoryStudio Chicago and the board for queer storytelling bar church Gilead Chicago.

She’s currently at work on Practice: A Search for Salvation in Hotels, Churches, and Other Wrong Places, a memoir of her first job in sex work to her first sermon from the pulpit.