Jia Tolentino

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The New Yorker; Author of “Trick Mirror”

Staff Writer

Jia Tolentino is a staff writer at the New Yorker and the author of the essay collection “Trick Mirror,” an instant New York Times bestseller that has since been translated into twelve languages. Formerly, she was the deputy editor at Jezebel and a contributing editor at the Hairpin. She grew up in Texas, received her undergraduate degree at the University of Virginia, and got her MFA in fiction from the University of Michigan. Her work has also appeared in the New York Times Magazine and Pitchfork, among other places.