Linda Kramer Jenning began her journalism career with the Associated Press in New York, San Francisco and Oregon. She worked in television at the CBS affiliate in Portland, Oregon, before returning to print journalism as a freelancer for Time magazine and other publications. She later joined People magazine and served as its Deputy Bureau Chief in Washington, DC. In 2007 she became the Washington editor for Glamour.

Kramer Jenning holds a master’s degree in literary nonfiction from Johns Hopkins University and a bachelor’s degree from Smith College. She has taught undergraduate journalism at Georgetown College and was the Shapiro Fellow in the School of Media and Public Affairs at The George Washington University in 2006. She also has taught in the Boston University Washington Semester program. She is a director of the Alumnae Association of Smith College and a past board member of the Women and Journalism Symposium. Her honors include Time Inc.’s Henry Luce Award for Outstanding Story for her article on a wounded marine in 2006. She is the author of Celebrating Portland.