Jia Tolentino
Staff Writer, The New Yorker

Jia Tolentino is a staff writer at The New Yorker. Raised in Texas, she served in Kyrgyzstan in the Peace Corps before starting her writing career. Before joining The New Yorker, she was a contributing editor at The Hairpin and the deputy editor at Jezebel. Tolentino's work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Pitchfork, and other publications. She lives in Brooklyn.