Jia Tolentino completed the manuscript for Trick Mirror at MacDowell. It is an essay collection about contemporary self-delusion for Random House. She is a staff writer at The New Yorker, formerly the deputy editor at Jezebel and a contributing editor at The Hairpin. She grew up in Texas, went to the University of Virginia, and got her M.F.A. in fiction from the University of Michigan. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, TIME, Grantland, Slate, Pitchfork, Bon Appetit, SPIN, and Fader.
Portrait by Elena Mudd
