Jia Tolentino
Writer and editor
Jia Tolentino is a Canadian-American writer and editor who has been a staff writer at The New Yorker. Her essays were collected in Trick Mirror in 2019.
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Born 1988 in Toronto, Canada
About Jia Tolentino
Jia Tolentino was born in 1988 and is a Canadian-American writer and editor. She grew up in Texas and studied at the University of Virginia, then earned a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in fiction at the University of Michigan. She also served with the Peace Corps in Kyrgyzstan. She has been a staff writer at The New Yorker. Before that she held editing roles at Jezebel, as deputy editor, and at The Hairpin, as a contributing editor. Pieces by her have also run in Pitchfork and The New York Times Magazine. In 2019 her collected essays came out as Trick Mirror.