JIA TOLENTINO

Jia Tolentino is a staff writer at the New Yorker, the author of the essay collection Trick Mirror, and a screenwriter. 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. In 2020, she received a Whiting Award as well as the Jeannette Haien Ballard Prize. Her work has also appeared in the New York Times Magazine and Pitchfork, among other places. She lives in Brooklyn.

Trick Mirror, published in 2019, was an instant New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize for Best First Book and the PEN America Diamondstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. It was named one of the best books of the year by the New York Public Library, the New York Times Book Review, the Washington Post, NPR, the Chicago Tribune, GQ, and the Paris Review. The book has been translated into twelve languages and is out in paperback now. There’s also an audiobook, narrated by the author. 

essays	Is Abortion Sacred? – TNY – 2022 We’re Not Going Back to the Time Before Roe – TNY – 2022 Can Motherhood Be a Mode of Rebellion? – TNY – 2022 How a Woman Becomes a Lake – TNY – 2018 The Most American Thing – TNY – 2017 How Men Like Weinstein Implicate Their Victims – TNY – 2017 All the Greedy Young Abigail Fishers and Me – Jezebel – 2016 How Empowerment Became Something to Buy – NYTMag – 2016 What About David Bowie & Lori Maddox? – Jezebel – 2016 Cheerleaders 4 Christ – Adult Mag – 2015 No Offense – Jezebel – 2015
REPORTING	Britney Spears’ Conservatorship Nightmare – TNY – 2021 Caroline Polachek Takes the Stage – TNY – 2021 Athleisure Time – TNY – 2019 Marlon James & the African ‘Game of Thrones’ – TNY – 2018 The Vapors – TNY – 2018 The Important, Inappropriate Literary Man – Jezebel – 2016
Interviews	Karen O Has Found a More Joyful Kind of Wildness – TNY – 2022 A Woman Who Got an Abortion at 32 Weeks – Jezebel – 2016 A Chat with a Man Who Had Sex With a Dolphin – Jezebel – 2015 Talking to William Finnegan About ‘Barbarian Days‘ – Deadspin – 2015 Dionne Osborne, Drake’s Vocal Coach Extraordinaire – Jezebel – 2014
POP CULTURE	Ocean Vuong’s Life Sentences – TNY – 2019 The Oscars Are Fucking Weird – TNY – 2018 Robyn Has What You Want – TNY – 2018 Let’s Not ‘Marvin Gaye’ and Get It On – TNY – 2016 Watching ‘Arrival’ After the Election – TNY – 2016 Notes on 21st Century Mystic Carly Rae Jepsen – The Awl – 2015 Taylor Swift Is Definitely In Her Zone – Jezebel – 2015 We Are Not Your Friends – The Awl – 2015 Shark Tank – Grantland – 2015 Why I Have to Be So Rude – The Hairpin – 2014 What Made the OC Great, Bitch  – The Awl – 2013

More information about Jia and her work can be found at Interview, Longform, Catapult, Brooklyn Magazine, Mythos (where these photos, taken by Elena Mudd, are from), Elle, SSENSE, Longform again, or the Creative Independent.

For speaking engagements and similar inquiries, please contact Jia’s agent, Amy Williams.

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