J.T. Blatty

Jennifer Tuero Blatty (born 1978) is an American photojournalist, former army captain, and college athlete. The daughter of tennis player Linda Tuero and writer and filmmaker William Peter Blatty, she was a star tennis player at the United States Military Academy at West Point. She served six years in the United States Army including in the United States invasion of Afghanistan, and the 2003 invasion of Iraq. After military service she became a photojournalist. She wrote and photographed for newspapers, magazines, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and published photobooks about communities in the United States South. Since 2018 she has been documenting Ukrainian military volunteers in the Russo-Ukrainian War. Family and early life Jennifer Tuero Blatty was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1978, to tennis player and paleoanthropologist Linda Tuero and author and filmmaker William Peter Blatty. Each parent married several times, and she has multiple half-siblings; full brother Billy Blatty became a restaurateur and entrepreneur. In 1996 she graduated from St. Martin's Episcopal School, which her mother had also attended. West Point and military service