Jen Spyra is a writer and performer, and was a staff writer for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert for four seasons. She was also a senior writer for The Onion, where she headed the editorial video department as a writer, director, and producer. Jen’s debut short story collection Big Time came out in March 2021. Jen’s 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, she’s performed on teams at iO Chicago, iO LA, and currently at UCB in New York.