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 TheNew Yorker, formerly the deputy editor at Jezebel and a contributing editor at TheHairpin. 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 TheNew York Times, TheNew York Times Magazine, TIME, Grantland, Slate, Pitchfork, Bon Appetit, SPIN, and Fader.
Portrait by Elena Mudd
Fellow Works Supported by MacDowell
Trick Mirror (essay collection)
Studios
Sorosis
Jia Tolentino worked in the Sorosis studio.
Sorosis
Studio was funded by the New York Carol Club of Sorosis. The small,
masonry studio was designed by F. Winsor, Jr., the architect who also
designed Savidge Library (1926) and Mixter Studio (1927).
At
the time of construction, the large porch on the southeast façade
offered a spectacular mountain view that has since been obscured…
