Jennie Agg

Jennie Agg is an acclaimed health and science journalist, whose work has appeared in the Guardian, The Times, the Daily Mail, the Daily Telegraph, Red magazine, Grazia and Women’s Health, among others. She is also the author of the award-winning blog The Uterus Monologues, through which she has charted her own experience of recurrent miscarriage as well as helping other women to share their stories of infertility and pregnancy loss.

Jennie read English Literature at the University of Manchester, including a creative writing element with the university’s Centre for New Writing. She has won several prizes for her journalism, including an Association of British Science Writers’ Award, an FPA Media Award, and a MIND mental health award.

Her first book, Life, Almost: Miscarriage, misconceptions and a search for answers from the brink of motherhood (Transworld) documents Jennie's path to motherhood and her search for answers. Tracing each tentative step of her fifth pregnancy - as her body becomes a creature she does not wish to spook - she dismantles the myths that we unquestioningly accept about our reproductive lives.