Jeanette Mrozinski

Jeanette Mrozinski has worked in city halls, strip clubs, newsrooms, bedrooms, yoga studios, libraries, factories, restaurants, and churches — and about a dozen other places 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.

She’s served several churches, most recently on the board of Gilead Chicago, a queer storytelling bar church on the city’s north side. Now based in Nashville, she manages the biggest (and, we think, only) queer cozy math rock band in the world.

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