Kara Jesella is a writer in New York City. She is the co-author of How Sassy Changed My Life: A Love Letter to the Greatest Teen Magazine of All Time, published by Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. A former journalist, she has been an editor at The New York Times, Teen Vogue, Nylon, and written for these and many other publications, including Ms., The New Republic, and Slate.

Longing to perform feminism in more explicitly theoretical and experimental ways, she began writing on the Internet as and about feminist theory, feminist pedagogy, and feminist archiving. In 2009, she entered New York University’s Performance Studies program, where she is currently a PhD candidate working on those topics. At Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory, she was the founding editor of Ampersand, a section devoted to untraditional scholarship, as well as the Managing Editor.