May Jeong is a writer for Vanity Fair. Her upcoming book on sex work was awarded a 2022 J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award and a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant. Her reporting from Afghanistan, where she lived from 2013 to 2017, was awarded a South Asian Journalist Association’s Daniel Pearl Award, a Bayeux Calvados Normandy Award for War Correspondents, and has been recognized by the Kurt Schork and Livingston awards. She is a Visiting Assistant Professor at New York University’s Gallatin School. She lives on land ceded by the Lenape people in the Treaty of Shackamaxon in 1682.