Masha Tupitsyn

About Me

Masha Tupitsyn is a fiction writer and cultural critic. She is the author of Beauty Talk & Monsters, a collection of film-based stories (Semiotext(e) Press, 2007) and contributing editor of the forthcoming anthology Life As We Show It: Writing on Film (City Lights, 2009). She is currently working on a new book about John Cusack and the politics of acting, Star Notes. Her fiction and criticism has appeared or is forthcoming in Animal Shelter, The Believer, Fanzine, Creative Aggression, the anthologies Wreckage of Reason: XXperimental Women Writers Writing in the 21st Century and the Encyclopedia Project Volume II, F-K (Encyclomedia Press, 2009), Make/Shift, Bookforum, Fence, Five Fingers Review, and San Francisco’s KQED’s The Writer’s Block.