Gabrielle Birkn­er is the cofounder and exec­u­tive edi­tor of Mod­ern Loss. She has served as man­ag­ing edi­tor at the Jew­ish Tele­graph­ic Agency, direc­tor of dig­i­tal media at the For­ward, and fea­tures edi­tor at the New York Sun. Gabrielle lives in Los Ange­les with her hus­band and two children.