Masha Tupitsyn is the author of 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), which was voted one of the best film books of 2009 by Dennis Cooper, January magazine, Shelf Awareness, and Chicago's New City. She is currently working on a new book of essays on film, Screen to Screen as well as a book about the actor John Cusack, Star Notes: John Cusack and The Politics of Acting. Her fiction and criticism has appeared in the anthologies Wreckage of Reason: XXperimental Women Writers Writing in the 21st Century and the Encyclopedia Project Volume II, F-K, and magazines like Indiewire's Press Play, Keyframe, Bookforum, Fence, Ryeberg Curated Video, 2nd Floor Projects,Vertebrae Journal, Bomb Blog,Venus Magazine, The Rumpus, Animal Shelter, Fanzine, Make/Shift, Five Fingers Review, and San Francisco's KQED's The Writer's Block.
She regularly contributes video essays on film and culture to Ryeberg Curated Video, which features writers like Mary Gaitskill and Sheila Heti: http://ryeberg.com/author/masha-tupitsyn/

In 2011, she wrote the radio play, "Time for Nothing," for Performa 11, the New Visual Art Performance Biennial in conjunction with Frieze Magazine. She blogs about philosophy, cinema, and love at: http://mashatupitsyn.tumblr.com/

She lives in New York.