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Angela Lovell is a best-selling author and award-winning playwright, director, screenwriter, podcaster, critic, writing instructor, and storyteller. She has written for VICE, MTV, Universal Studios, the New York Post, BUST, High Times, and many other outlets. You can hear her...
Amanda Petrusich is a staff writer at the New Yorker and the author of three books about music. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in nonfiction, and her music writing has been nominated for a Grammy Award. She...
Durga Chew-Bose is a writer and editor based in Montreal. Her debut collection of essays,Too Much and Not the Mood (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), was published in 2017.
Having begun her career in radio journalism in 1981, at the age of nineteen, Elvira Lindo went on to become an acclaimed novelist as well as a writer for television and film. She is a weekly contributor to El País,...
Shonni Enelow is the author of Joanna Hogg (Contemporary Film Directors series, University of Illinois Press, 2024) and Method Acting and Its Discontents (Northwestern, 2015) and the coauthor of A Discourse on Method (53rd State, 2020). Her film writing has...
Miranda July is a filmmaker, artist, and writer. Her most recent work is The First Bad Man, a novel.
Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa is a filmmaker and film professor at Columbia College Chicago. Her book Abbas Kiarostami, cowritten with Jonathan Rosenbaum, was published by the University of Illinois Press in 2003.
Allison Anders is an award-winning film and television writer and director who got her first professional break working for her mentor, Wim Wenders, on his movie Paris, Texas (1984). Her feature debut was Border Radio (1987), cowritten and codirected with...
Sheila O’Malley writes weekly film reviews for RogerEbert.com, and has also written for Liberties Journal, Film Comment, and the New York Times, among other outlets. In 2025, she wrote The Art and Making of “Frankenstein,” the official companion book to...
Hillary Weston is staff writer and social media director at the Criterion Collection. Her work has appeared in Film Quarterly, BOMB, Interview, and BlackBook.