Jia Tolentino

Jia Tolentino is a staff writer at The New Yorker, the author of the essay collection Trick Mirror, and a screenwriter. She was previously deputy editor at Jezebel and a contributing editor at The Hairpin. She grew up in Texas, studied at the University of Virginia, and received an MFA from the University of Michigan. In 2020 she won a Whiting Award and the Jeannette Haien Ballard Prize, and in 2023 she received a National Magazine Award for her writing about the repeal of Roe v. Wade.