Jo Livingstone (formerly Josephine Livingstone[1]) is a British literary critic who publishes primarily in American venues.[2] They are the former staff writer for culture at The New Republic and one of the eight writers of a letter to the New York Times complaining of anti-trans bias that was signed by over 1000 contributors to the Times.[3][4][5][6] As of 2023, they publish the blog The Stopgap with Daniel M. Lavery .[7][8]
ivingstone received a B.A. in English Language and Literature from the University of Oxford in 2010 and a PhD from New York University in medieval literature in 2015.[9]
Livingstone received the 2017 Newswomen's Club of New York's Front Page Award for opinion writing[10] and the 2020 National Book Critics' Circle's Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing.[11][12]