Jen Spyra

Jen Spyra was a staff writer on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and formerly a senior writer for The Onion, where she also headed the editorial video department as a writer, director, and producer. Her humor writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, McSweeney's, The Wall Street Journal, The Daily Beast, and elsewhere. As an improviser, Spyra has performed on teams at iO Chicago, iO Los Angeles, and UCB in New York. She is a graduate of Barnard College and has an MFA in playwriting and screenwriting from Northwestern University.--This text refers to the hardcover edition.