Cord Jefferson is a TV writer and journalist. Originally from Tucson, Arizona, he has since donated a kidney in Saudi Arabia, sunk a rowboat off the coast of Italy, and been chased out of Mexico. His TV credits include Watchmen, The Good Place, Master of None, and The Nightly Show. His reporting and writing have appeared in or on National Geographic, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, Matter, Bookforum, The Awl, ESPN the Magazine, USA Today, The Daily Beast, and various other publications. For two years he served as the west coast editor at Gawker. Prior to that, he was the senior editor at GOOD magazine. You may have heard him talking on NPR, where he used to review books, or on WNYC, the CBC, the BBC, CNN, RT, MSNBC, or HBO, where he’s appeared as a correspondent on the documentary series Vice. His literary agent is David Patterson at Stuart Krichevsky. His manager is Jermaine Johnson at 3Arts. His television literary agent is Laura Gordon at ICM.

Cord lives in Los Angeles.