Jeanne Marie Laskas is the author of eight books, including To Obama: With Love, Joy, Anger, and Hope, and The New York Times bestseller Concussion, the basis for the 2015 Golden Globe-nominated film. Most recently, she is the host and co-writer of the Audacy Original podcast series CEMENT CITY, named one of the top ten “Best Podcasts of 2024” by The New York Times. The series has been shortlisted for two Ambie awards, including “Podcast of the Year,” and the 2024 National Magazine Award for best podcast. Laskas is a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine, a correspondent at GQ, and a two-time National Magazine Award finalist for feature writing. Her stories also appear in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Esquire.

Literary Agent
The Cheney Agency
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Her other titles include Hidden America: From Coal Miners to Cowboys, an Extraordinary Exploration of the Unseen People Who Make This Country Work (Putnam, 2012) and a trilogy of memoirs: Growing Girls (Bantam Dell, 2006), The Exact Same Moon (Bantam Dell, 2003), and Fifty Acres and a Poodle (Bantam Dell, 2000). Laskas’ work has appeared in numerous anthologies, including Best American Magazine Writing 2008 and Best American Sportswriting 2000, 2002, 2008, 2010, and 2012. Her earliest essays and features are compiled in The Balloon Lady and Other People I Know (Duquesne, 1996). Laskas serves as Distinguished Professor of English and Founding Director of the Center for Creativity at the University of Pittsburgh.

Speaker's Bureau
Lyceum Agency
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For more on Jeanne Marie, read her selected interviews here.