About Us

Jenny is a website for women who read. Sassy was our feminist teenage touchstone: It spoke to us about real things like we were real people. Jenny is that for Gen X and elder Millennial women who don’t see themselves reflected in online media today. We cover style & beauty, relationships, health & wellness, and culture & entertainment.

We’re bored by Martha’s Stewart’s perfection—and don’t even get us started on Good Housekeeping. We’re so much more than an Instagrammable backsplash. We don’t want to be pigeonholed into single-category consumers. We want to read articles about what an outrage it is that we have both zits and gray hair and are sweating from our armpits for the first time in our lives. We want to know if we should ground our teenagers when we catch them smoking weed, now that it’s legal. We want to know how to pull off a solo vacation. We want to embody the power and audacity we feel in our 40s without dressing like the 1990s version of ourselves. And we want to laugh at all of it, because if we don’t, we’ll cry.

Jenny is for women over 40 who are now perimenopausal with kids of our own (or not), big life problems, small life dilemmas, and happy moments in between. Jenny is your mirror. We’re not going to whisper quietly over the hill. We’re gonna scream.

The Jenny Team:

Lili Zarghami, Founder

President, Business Dev, Growth, Audience Dev, Social Media

Lili Zarghami lives with her teenagers in Brooklyn. She’s been writing for and providing editorial direction at women’s websites like Redbook, HGTV, Better Homes & Gardens and more since the turn of the century. She can remember the addresses of all the places she was a latchkey kid but has no idea what her email password is.

Follow her: @lilizarghami

Lili’s Stories

Megan Cahn, Co-Founder

Vice President, Editorial Director, Newsletters, Programming

Megan Cahn started her editorial career at Sassy’s less irreverent younger cousin, CosmoGIRL. She went on to work in the women’s lifestyle space at publications such as ELLE, Refinery29, Cup of Jo, and Best Life. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, cat, and seven-year-old daughter, who has adopted her childhood Cabbage Patch Kids collection.

Follow her: @megcahn

Megan’s Stories

Leslie Henderson

Contributing Editor, Copy Editor

Leslie Hendrickson is a freelance writer and editor based in New York City and Litchfield County, Connecticut. Her work has been published in The Wall Street Journal, The Hollywood Reporter, MarketWatch, The New York Times, Family Circle, ARTNews, and the late, great Jane magazine. A recent addition to the Jenny staff, Leslie serves on the steering committee of the Newburyport Literary Festival and is a graduate of Columbia’s J-School and St. John’s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is also a puppet maker, an Agatha Christie aficionado, and has completed the New York City Triathlon—which includes a dip in the Hudson River—10 times.

Follow her: @vlhendrickson

Leslie’s Stories

Elizabeth Laura Nelson

Co-Founder Emeritus

Elizabeth Laura Nelson has been airing her dirty laundry online since she wrote an “It Happened To Me” story for the late, great xoJane. Since then she’s worked at websites including YourTango, Elite Daily, Woman’s World, and Best Life. When she was 12, she kissed the George Michael poster above her bed every night before she went to sleep.

Follow her: @elizabethlauranelson

Elizabeth’s Stories

“Jenny exists because I grew up as a latchkey kid in the suburbs and am now wondering if I can grow old in New York City. Jenny exists because women over 40 exist. They read, they write, they’re cool, they’re smart, they’re interesting.”
Read more: How Jenny Came to Be

Pitch Us!

If you’ve got a story you think is right for Jenny, we encourage you to read through some of our published pieces, then pitch us. Note that we don’t have word limit, but most of our stories are around 1500 words. We focus on personal narratives but are open to reported pieces and other formats as well. Send an email here with your story idea. Thanks so much for your interest!