Jen Murphy Parker

About The Author

Jen Murphy Parker earned her master’s degree from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and is the author of a monthly Substack newsletter praised by Bloomsbury editor Callie Garnett for its “shrewd, palliative voice and thoughtful approach to the big questions found in life’s smallest moments.” Her essays have appeared in Hobart, Heimat Review, Cleaver Magazine, and other literary outlets.

In partnership with Dr. Joseph Sullivan, Lew’s neurologist, Jen raised more than $2 million to establish a pediatric center for comprehensive epilepsy care at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital.

The mother of four children, she lives in Hillsborough, California, with her husband and youngest son.

Books by Jen Murphy Parker

Fault Line Boy

A Mother's Reckoning with Epilepsy

By Jen Murphy Parker
For readers of Joan Didion and Emily Rapp Black, Fault Line Boy follows one mother through the whiplash of raising a child with severe epilepsy. A clear-eyed memoir of medical motherhood, marriage under strain, and the hard-won joy that still finds its way in.
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