Jia Tolentino

Jia Tolentino
Born	Canada
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of Virginia; University of Michigan (MFA)
Occupation	Writer, editor
Employer	The New Yorker

Jia Tolentino is a staff writer for The New Yorker website and formerly deputy editor of Jezebel and contributing editor at The Hairpin. Her writing has also appeared in The New York Times Magazine and Pitchfork.

Tolentino was born in Canada and grew up in Texas in a Southern Baptist community. In 2005, she enrolled at the University of Virginia where she was a Jefferson Scholar-Joseph Chappell Hutcheson Scholar. After graduating from UVA, she earned an MFA from the University of Michigan.

Tolentino began writing working for The Hairpin in 2013, hired by then-editor-in-chief Emma Carmichael. In 2014, Tolentino and Carmichael both moved to Jezebel, where Tolentino worked for two years before joining The New Yorker.

Tolentino's work has won accolades writing across genres. Flavorwire called her a "go-to music source," while her first short story won the fall 2012 Raymond Carver Short Fiction Contest and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She has also drawn attention for essays on topics like race in publishing, marriage, and notions of female empowerment, as well as for no-holds-barred music criticism: The A.V. Club admired "Tolentino's sick burns on Charlie Puth" and Studio 360 observed that even in the near-universal panning of Magic!'s song "Rude", "no criticism has been quite as cutting as Jia Tolentino's."

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