Masha Tupitsyn 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), 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, and Love Dog:A Year in Love, a blog project which is being published by Penny-Ante Editions in 2012. She is also working on a book about John Cusack called Star Notes: John Cusack and The Politics of Acting.
Her fiction and criticism has appeared in the anthologies Occupy Wall Street Poetry Anthology(2011); Wreckage of Reason: XXperimental Women Writers Writing in the 21st Century (2008); and the Encyclopedia Project Volume II, F-K (2010); as well as Two Serious Ladies, the poet Ali Liebegott’s Faggot Dinosaur, Keyframe, Specter, Magazine,BOMB Blog, Boing Boing, Indiewire’s Press Play,Venus Magazine, Bookforum, Fence, The Rumpus, 2nd Floor Projects, Animal Shelter, The Fanzine, Make/Shift, NYFA, Vertebrae, and San Francisco’s KQED’s The Writer’s Block.
She regularly contributes video essays on film and culture to Ryeberg Curated Videohttp://www.ryeberg.com/curated-videos/lost-highway/, which features writers like Mary Gaitskill and Sheila Heti. In 2011, she wrote a radio play for Performa 11, Time for Nothing, the New Visual Art Performance Biennial in conjunction with Frieze Magazine. You can read her blog Love Dog, a book project, at:http://mashatupitsyn.tumblr.com/