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Jia Tolentino

Jia Tolentino

Jia Tolentino (born November 20, 1988) is an American writer and editor. She is a staff writer for The New Yorker.[1] She has previously worked as deputy editor of Jezebel and a contributing editor at The Hairpin.[2] Her writing has also appeared in The New York Times Magazine[3] and Pitchfork.[4]

BornNovember 20, 1988
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Virginia University of Michigan
OccupationWriter, editor
Years active2013–present
EmployerThe New Yorker
Home townHouston, Texas, U.S.

Early life and education

Tolentino was born in Toronto, Canada, to parents from the Philippines. When she was four years old they moved to Houston, Texas, and she grew up in a Southern Baptist community.[5][6][7][8][9] Tolentino attended an evangelical megachurch and a small Christian private school.[9] She has a younger brother.[9] Tolentino started elementary school early, and would graduate high school as her class salutatorian.[9] Although she was admitted to Yale University, family financial concerns led her to instead enroll at the University of Virginia[10] in 2005,[11] where she was a Jefferson Scholar-Joseph Chappell Hutcheson Scholar.[12] While at theUniversity of Virginia, she studied English, joined a sorority, and participated in an a cappella group.[9]

After graduating from UVA in 2009, she spent a year in the Peace Corps and served in Kyrgyzstan,[5] going on to earn an MFA from the University of Michigan.[13]

Career

Tolentino began writing working for The Hairpin in 2013, hired by then-editor-in-chief Emma Carmichael.[14][15] In 2014, Tolentino and Carmichael both moved to Jezebel, where Tolentino worked for two years before joining The New Yorker.[2]

Tolentino's work has won accolades writing across genres.

Flavorwire called her a "go-to music source,"[16] while her first short story won the fall 2012 Raymond Carver Short Fiction Contest[17] and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.[18] She has also drawn attention for essays on topics like race in publishing,[19] marriage,[20] abortion,[21] and notions of female empowerment,[22] as well as for no-holds-barred music criticism: The A.V. Club admired "Tolentino's sick burns on Charlie Puth"[23] 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."[24] Tolentino has reported extensively on the #MeToo movement.[25][26][27]

Tolentino published a collection of essays, in 2019, entitled "Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-delusion".[15] In her review in The New York Times, Maggie Doherty wrote: "Tolentino’s earnest ambivalence, expressed often throughout the book, is characteristic of millennial life-writing, and it can be contrasted with boomer self-satisfaction and Gen X disaffection in the same genre."

Personal life

Tolentino lives in New York City with her dog and her boyfriend, an architect whom she first met while at UVA.[9]

References

[1]
Citation Linkwww.newyorker.com"Jia Tolentino". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2018-02-06.
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[2]
Citation Linkwww.politico.comSterne, Peter (June 17, 2016). "New Yorker hires Jezebel deputy editor Jia Tolentino as web staff writer". Politico.
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[3]
Citation Linknyti.msTolentino, Jia (10 March 2016). "'Marvin Gaye' Charlie Puth". The New York Times Magazine.
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[4]
Citation Linkpitchfork.comTolentino, Jia (June 24, 2016). "Laura Mvula: The Dreaming Room Album Review". Pitchfork. Retrieved August 13, 2017.
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[5]
Citation Linkuvamagazine.orgGruss, Mike (Summer 2017). "Rising Star: Jia Tolentino has quickly made a name for herself as an essayist". Virginia Magazine. Retrieved 2018-02-06.
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[6]
Citation Linkwww.newyorker.comTolentino, Jia. "The Most American Thing". New Yorker. Retrieved 30 August 2017.
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[7]
Citation Linktwitter.comTolentino, Jia. ""I'm a Canadian citizen"". Twitter. Retrieved 30 August 2017.
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[8]
Citation Linkwww.newyorker.comTolentino, Jia (March 31, 2017). "Mike Pence's Marriage and the Beliefs That Keep Women from Power". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2017-08-14.
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[9]
Citation Linkwww.elle.comLangmuir, Molly (2019-07-24). "Jia Tolentino Explains It All". ELLE. Retrieved 2019-08-10.
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[10]
Citation Linklongform.org"Longform: Longform Podcast #183: Jia Tolentino". Longform.
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[11]
Citation Linkwww.newyorker.comTolentino, Jia (August 13, 2017). "Charlottesville and the Effort to Downplay Racism in America". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2017-08-14.
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[12]
Citation Linkwww.yourhoustonnews.comHamilton, Heath (April 29, 2005). "Second Baptist student wins Jefferson Scholarship at the University of Virginia". Your Houston News.
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[13]
Citation Linkwww.jeffersonscholars.org"Jia Tolentino - Jefferson Scholars Foundation". www.jeffersonscholars.org.
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[14]
Citation Linkjezebel.comTolentino, Jia. "Bye, I Hate It". Jezebel. Retrieved 2017-08-14.
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[15]
Citation Linkwww.nytimes.comMaggie Doherty (2019-08-04). "Jia Tolentino on the 'Unlivable Hell' of the Web and Other Millennial Conundrums". The New York Times. Retrieved 2019-08-04.
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[16]
Citation Linkflavorwire.com"Staff Picks: Flavorwire's Favorite Cultural Things This Week". Flavorwire. 5 March 2014.
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[17]
Citation Linkwww.carvezine.comLiang, Rio (May 15, 2013). "Q&A with Jia Tolentino". Carve Magazine.
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[18]
Citation Linkfictionphile.com"Short Story Review: The Odyssey by Jia Tolentino". Fictionphile. 1 February 2013.
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[19]
Citation Linknewrepublic.comBovy, Phoebe Maltz (12 October 2015). "White Male Writers: No Longer the Default, and Not Terribly Interesting". The New Republic.
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[20]
Citation Linkwww.cosmopolitan.comOdell, Amy (30 December 2013). "Are We Seriously Still Judging Women Who Want to Get Married?". Cosmopolitan.
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