Pernille Ipsen is a Danish historian and author, born in 1972, with a PhD in history from the University of Copenhagen. She spent fifteen years as a professor of gender and women's studies and history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison before leaving academia in 2025 to write full-time. Her book *Et åbent øjeblik* (Gyldendal, 2020) - a collective biography of the Danish women's movement told through her seven collective mothers - won the Montana Prize for Literature in 2020. An English-language version, *My Seven Mothers*, was published by the University of Minnesota Press in October 2025.
The English edition of *An Open Moment*, published as *My Seven Mothers: Making a Family in the Danish Women's Movement* by University of Minnesota Press, was released on October 21, 2025.
Pernille Ipsen participated in the Wisconsin Book Festival on October 26, 2025 and held a book signing at the bookstore A Room of One's Own in Madison.
Ipsen presented *My Seven Mothers* at Scandinavia House in New York on November 15, 2025.
Pernille Ipsen left her professorship at University of Wisconsin-Madison after 15 years (2009-2025) to write full-time.
Ipsen published a new column in Dagbladet Information on January 29, 2025 as part of her regular collaboration with the newspaper.
