Masha Tupitsyn is a writer and cultural critic. She is the author of LACONIA: 1,200 Tweets on Film (ZerO Books, 2011), Beauty Talk & Monsters, a collection of film-based stories (Semiotext(e) Press, 2007), and co-editor of the anthology Life As We Show It: Writing on Film (City Lights, 2009). Her work has also appeared in The White Review, BOMB, The New Inquiry, Fence, Bookforum, Berfrois and elsewhere. She is a PhD (ABD) candidate in Philosophy at The European Graduate School in Switzerland. She lives in New York City.