Jessica DuLong is a journalist, independent historian, book collaborator, writing coach, and proposal doctor, as well as chief engineer, emerita, of retired 1931 New York City fireboat, John J. Harvey.
Her latest book, SAVED AT THE SEAWALL: Stories from the September 11 Boat Lift (previously released as DUST TO DELIVERANCE), is the definitive history of the largest ever waterborne evacuation. Her 2009 book, MY RIVER CHRONICLES: Rediscovering the Work that Built America, won an American Society of Journalists and Authors Outstanding Book Award for Memoir.
DuLong’s journalism has been published by CNN.com, The Daily Beast, LitHub, Brevity, Nieman Storyboard, History News Network, Newsweek International, Rolling Stone, Psychology Today, Huffington Post, Newsday, CosmoGIRL!, Today’s Machining World, and Maritime Reporter and Engineering News. She’s featured in Spike Lee’s HBO docu-series “NYC Epicenters 9/11→2021½,” a chapter of which was based on her book SAVED AT THE SEAWALL. She also appears, in cartoon form, in Maira Kalman’s picture book, FIREBOAT: The Heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey.