About Jennifer Hayden
Jennifer Hayden
Jennifer Hayden is a graphic novelist whose breast cancer memoir The Story of My Tits was nominated for an Eisner Award and has been translated into three languages. The French edition, Nénés Chéris, was shortlisted for Elle France Magazine‘s 2022 comics grand prix. Hayden’s first collection Underwire was excerpted in The Best American Comics 2013. Her new graphic cooking memoir is called Where There’s Smoke, There’s Dinner: Confessions of a Cartoonist Cook, and she hopes to use the proceeds from this book to hire a personal chef. She lives with her husband in New Jersey.
Author Archives: Jennifer Hayden
January 27th, 2026 | by Jennifer Hayden
The sound that announced it was time for dinner was the smoke detector going off
October 19th, 2015 | by Jennifer Hayden
In my roaring twenties, I was determined to be a great writer. Short stories, fiction, booze, late nights, angst. I