Julyssa Lopez is a staff writer at Rolling Stone, where she covers music. Her writing has been featured in GQ, Vogue, Billboard, BBC, the Guardian, The Washington Post, Glamour, ​CNN, and more. Her work includes Billboard's 2019 cover story on Lizzo, and Vogue's 2020 cover on Rosalia. She won a Lowell Thomas Awards in 2021 for her BBC story, "New York’s Last Great Jazz Parlour."
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She grew up between Nicaragua and Washington, D.C., and was previously based in Germany. Currently, she lives in Brooklyn, New York.