Masha Tupitsyn

Masha Tupitsyn is a fiction writer and cultural critic who lives in New York City. She received her MA in Literature and Cultural Theory from the University of Sussex in England. In 2004, she worked as the Assistant Literary Editor at BOMB Magazine. She was a 2005 finalist for the Panliterary Award for Fiction, sponsored by Drunken Boat and has been awarded residency at Yaddo Colony, Djerrasi, and The Fundación Valparaíso, Artists & Writers Residency Program in Spain. Her fiction and criticism has appeared or is forthcoming in Animal Shelter, The Believer, the anthology Wreckage of Reason: XXperimental Women Writers Writing in the 21st Century, Make/Shift, Bookforum, Fence, Five Fingers Review, NYFA Current, and on San Francisco’s KQED’s The Writer’s Block. She is the author of Beauty Talk & Monsters, a collection of film-based stories (Semiotext(e) Press, 2007), chosen by Proximity Magazine’s managing editor, Mairead Case, for their 2008 summer reading list, and co-editor of the forthcoming anthology Life As We Show It: Writing on Film (City Lights, 2009). She is currently working on her new book, Showtime, a collection of essays.