Abigail Jones is an award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author specializing in mental health, trauma, women and family. She has written cover stories, features and culture articles for The Washington Post Magazine, Newsweek and Vanity Fair, among other publications, on topics ranging from child sexual abuse, to schizophrenia’s toll on families, to women in the CIA. She was a 2020-2021 Rosalynn Carter Fellow for Mental Health Journalism.

Jones was a senior writer at Newsweek from 2013 to 2018, where she wrote more than a dozen cover stories for the magazine. Two of them won Front Page Awards from the Newswomen’s Club of New York: Best Medicine/Health Reporting for her 2017 cover story “Cancer and Sex: Why Is Nobody Talking About It?” and Best Magazine Interview for her 2016 cover profile “Life After Eleven Years of Captivity, Rape and Torture: Michelle Knight’s Story.”

Now a freelance writer, Abigail has also worked at the Forward, The Daily and The Atlantic. She co-authored the New York Times and #1 Boston Globe nonfiction bestseller “Restless Virgins: Love, Sex, and Survival in Prep School,” now a Lifetime Original Movie.

Abigail was a 2014-2015 Ochberg Fellow in trauma journalism and serves as an advisor to the Trust for Trauma Journalism. She is chair of the editorial board of the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, where she is also a regular contributor. She has Master’s degrees arts and culture journalism from the Columbia Journalism School as well as in creative writing from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and a Bachelor’s in English from Dartmouth College. She lives in New York City with her family.