Paula Mejía is a Colombian American writer and editor from Houston. She is the former arts editor at the Los Angeles Times and teaches arts writing at USC’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. Previously a senior editor at Texas Monthly, she has written about the retail apocalypse, literary hoaxes, the streaming economy, demolition derbies, mid-century modern architecture in the Instagram age and more for the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Paris Review, Rolling Stone and other publications. She is a co-founding editor of “Turning the Tables,” NPR Music’s Grace Award–winning series about centering women and nonbinary artists in the musical canon, and the author of a 33⅓ series installment on the Jesus and Mary Chain’s 1985 album Psychocandy. She holds a bachelor of arts degree in English and creative writing and a master’s degree in English literature from the George Washington University.
