Writers

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Co-Founders & Editors

Amber Leab is a writer living in Asheville, North Carolina. She holds a Master’s degree in English & Comparative Literature from the University of Cincinnati and a Bachelor’s degree in English Literature & Creative Writing from Miami University. Outside of Bitch Flicks, her work has appeared in The Georgetown Review, on the blogs Shakesville, Opinioness of the World, and I Will Not Diet, and at True Theatre.

Stephanie Rogers co-founded Bitch Flicks in 2008. She holds Bachelor's degrees in English and Women's Studies from The Ohio State University, a Master's in English and Comparative Literature from the University of Cincinnati, and a Master of Fine Arts in Poetry from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her poems have been anthologized in Best New Poets 2006 and Best New Poets 2009 and have been published in literary journals such as The Southern Review, Pleiades, and Third Coast, among others. Her feminist commentary has appeared at Shakesville, I Will Not Diet, The Opinioness of the World, and The Good Men Project. She lives in a very tiny studio apartment in Brooklyn where she obsesses over Women Occupy, a tumblr she created to highlight women who participate in the Occupy Movement.

Contributors


Megan Kearns is a blogger, freelance writer and activist. A feminist vegan, Megan blogs at The Opinioness of the World. She earned her B.A. in Anthropology and Sociology and a Graduate Certificate in Women and Politics and Public Policy. She lives in Boston. She contributed reviews of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, Something Borrowed, !Women Art Revolution, and The Kids Are All Right (for our 2011 Best Picture Nominee Review Series). She also contributed a review of The Reader for our 2009 Best Picture Nominee Review Series.

Guest Writers*

Cynthia Arrieu-King is an assistant professor of creative writing at Stockton College.


Soraya Chemaly writes feminist satire.

Carrie Nelson is a Founder and Editor of Gender Across Borders and works as a grant writer for an LGBT nonprofit organization in NYC.

Byron Bailey is an adjunct instructor at the University of Cincinnati and Wright State University. He's currently trying to finish his dissertation on Shakespeare and Machiavelli. He contributed a Review in Conversation of Horrible Bosses.

Emily Belanger currently lives in Utah, where she's completing an MFA in creative writing. When she isn't writing fiction or teaching, she co-edits Not Another Wave, a feminist blog with an inclusive angle, and writes for Go Girl Magazine, a travel magazine for and by women. She's originally from rural New Hampshire and misses the humidity very much. She contributed a review of Howl's Moving Castle to Bitch Flicks. 

Kirk Boyle is an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina Asheville. He contributed pieces about The Day the Earth Stood Still, Revolutionary Road, and Good Dick to Bitch Flicks, as well as a Review in Conversation of Horrible Bosses.

Stephanie Brown is the author of two collections of poetry, Domestic Interior and Allegory of the Supermarket. She’s published work in American Poetry Review, Ploughshares and The Best American Poetry series. She was awarded an NEA Fellowship in 2001 and a Breadloaf Fellowship in 2009. She has taught at UC Irvine and the University of Redlands and is a regional branch manager for OC Public Libraries in southern California. She grew up in the same area as Richard Nixon and lives in San Clemente, where the Western White House still stands at its southernmost shore. She contributed a review of Frost/Nixon for our 2009 Best Picture Nominee Review Series.

Tatiana Christian is a 20-something blogger who loves to blog around race, gender, media, and how personal experiences allow her to explore issues regarding social justice. She loves to spend time on Twitter following and participating in conversations that help expand her understanding of the world. She contributed a review of Slumdog Millionaire for our 2009 Best Picture Nominee Review Series.

Jesseca Cornelson is currently working on a collection of documentary poems about the history of Mobile, Alabama, which will serve as her dissertation for a doctorate in English and Comparative Literature from the University of Cincinnati. She blogs about her research and writing at Difficult History. She reviewed An Education for our 2010 Best Picture Nominee Review Series and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button for our 2009 Best Picture Nominee Review Series. 

Marina DelVecchio is a writer and a College Instructor. She has a BA in English Literature, an MS in English and Secondary Education and has completed thirty credits towards a Doctorate in Feminist Theory, Rhetoric and Composititon and 19th century Women Writers. Originally from New York, she began teaching on the High School level and then moved up to the College level in 2005. She presently teaches English Composition, Research, and Literature at a local Community College in North Carolina. She contributed an analysis titled, Girl Power in Sucker Punch, Hanna, and Winter's Bone, and a review of Grey's Anatomy to Bitch Flicks.

Nine Deuce blogs at Rage Against the Man-chine. From her bio: I basically go off, dude. People all over the internet call me rad. They call me fem, too, but I'm not all that fem. I mean, I'm female and I have long hair and shit, but that's just because I'm into Black Sabbath. I don't have any mini-skirts, high heels, thongs, or lipstick or anything, and I often worry people with my decidedly un-fem behavior. I'm basically a "man" trapped in a woman's body. What I mean is that, like a person with a penis, I act like a human being and expect other people to treat me like one even though I have a vagina. She wrote scathing reviews of both The Blind Side and Avatar.

Didion, a university professor in Texas, blogs at Feminéma, a blog about feminism, cinéma, and popular culture. This blog is her way to address the achingly slow progress women are making toward social and financial equality, as film is a vivid place to see how women so frequently appear as stereotypes onscreen and only rarely appear in powerful roles like director, producer, and screenwriter. She contributed a review of Network to Bitch Flicks.

Sarah Domet received her Ph.D. in English Literature and Creative Writing (Fiction) from the University of Cincinnati in 2009. She spends most her time writing, teaching, cooking, gardening, taking long drives in the country, and doing other things that would lead you to believe she's 80 years old. Look for her book, The 90-Day Novel (F+W Publications, 2010), due out this fall. She reviewed District 9 for our 2010 Best Picture Nominee Review Series.

Travis Eisenbise works at a non-profit environmental organization in New York City. His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in (super small) journals, so it's okay that you've never heard of him. He lives in Brooklyn with his partner who likes to make bread in a bread robot. He reviewed Up for our 2010 Best Picture Nominee Review Series.

Marian Evans is a cultural activist filmmaker who holds New Zealand's first PhD in Creative Writing. She is currently realising her thesis feature script "Development," about a group of women filmmakers, set in an imaginary corner of Wellywood, New Zealand's Hollywood. She'd love suggestions about brands that might like to partner the project, and welcomes introductions to anyone who can help. She contributed “The 40% Figure” to Bitch Flicks, which was also cross posted at her blog Wellywood Woman.

Fannie, author of Fannie's Room, who, when not hanging out at her blog, can probably be found planning the homosexual agenda, twirling her mustache, plotting a leftist feminist takeover of the universe, and coordinating the recruitment effort of the lesbian branch of the Gay Mafia. Her days are busy. She cross-posted her analysis of That Glee Photo Shoot.

Jessica Freeman-Slade is a writer who reviews and blogs on book culture at [tk] reviews, and has written reviews for The Millions and The Rumpus. She edits cookbooks and is the assistant managing editor for Alfred A. Knopf. She lives in Morningside Heights. She contributed a review of the Oscar-nominated film, The Fighter for our 2011 Best Picture Nominee Review Series.

Tami Winfrey Harris writes about race, feminism, politics and pop culture at the blog What Tami Said. Her work has also appeared online at The Guardian’s Comment is Free, Ms. Magazine blog, Newsweek, Change.org, Huffington Post and Racialicious. She is a graduate of the Iowa State University Greenlee School of Journalism. She spends her spare time researching her family history and cultivating a righteous 'fro. She cross-posted her review of Sucker Punch at Bitch Flicks.

Marcia Herring is a rollergirl receptionist from Southeast Missouri. She is still working on her graduate degree, but swears to have it done someday. She spends most of her time watching television and movies and wishes she could listen to music and read while doing so without going insane. She wrote an analysis of Degrassi, Teens, and Rape Apologism and contributed a review of X-Men First Class. She also wrote a review of Atonement for our 2008 Best Picture Nominee Review Series.

Robin Hitchcock has a card in her wallet that proves she's an attorney, but she practices writing more than she practices law. You can read her series of reviews of wedding movies at her blog HitchDied and her reviews of everything else at The Double R Diner. She contributed a review of Michael Clayton for our 2008 Best Picture Nominee Review Series.

Eileen Hunter has an MA in English and is working on an MLIS. She lives in California with her cat, husband, and daughter. She contributed a review of Pirate Radio to Bitch Flicks.

Lady T writes about feminism, comedy, media, and literature at the blog The Funny Feminist. Her essay "My Mom, the Reader" has also been featured at SMITH Magazine. A graduate of Hofstra University, she teaches English to eighth graders and writes fiction about vampires, superhero girlfriends, and feisty princesses. She contributed a review of Easy A to Bitch Flicks.

Lesley Jenike received her PhD from the University of Cincinnati in 2008. She currently teaches poetry writing, screenwriting, and literature classes at the Columbus College of Art and Design. Her book of poems is Ghost of Fashion (CustomWords, 2009). She reviewed the Oscar-nominated film, A Serious Man as part of our 2010 Best Picture Nominee Review Series and There Will Be Blood, for our 2008 Best Picture Nominee Review Series.

Skye Kilaen blogs about women kicking ass in action films at Heroine Content, where the unofficial slogan is "Helping feminists with their Netflix queues since 2006." She contributed her review of Machete to Bitch Flicks.

Arielle Loren is a gender and sexuality writer, filmmaker, and web personality. Recently, she directed and produced The Bi-deology Project, a media-acclaimed, online documentary series that chronicles the experiences of straight women dating bisexual men. She contributed a review of Night Catches Us to Bitch Flicks.

Katrina Majkut is the founder and writer of the website TheFeministBride.com. As a "wedding anthropologist," she examines how weddings and relationships are influenced by history, pop culture and the media. Her goal is to bring to light the inherent gender inequality issues that couples may not even be aware of within wedding traditions and the wedding "industry," and to start dialogue around solutions that empower women to take positive action toward equality in their relationships and marriages. She cross posted her preview of the film Bridesmaids for Bitch Flicks.

Djelloul Marbrook blogs at www.djelloulmarbrook.com and is the author of two books of poetry (Far from Algiers, Kent State; Brushstrokes and Glances, Deerbrook Editions) and three novellas (Artemisia’s Wolf, Saraceno, and Alice Miller’s Room). A retired newspaper editor, he lives in New York with his wife Marilyn. He contributed an analysis titled, The Hollywood Concept of Collateral Beauty.

Markgraf, who contributed a review of Source Code to Bitch Flicks, draws pictures, plays Pokemon, watches films, writes for BadRep, caresses tanks, talks to himself in public and collects interesting bits of cardboard. He wishes he had a life.

Renee Martin is a disabled mother of two, and a freelance writer who focuses on social justice. On her blog Womanist Musings she largely writes about social justice generally. She also is a contributor and co-creator of the blog Fangs for the Fantasy, where she writes critically using a social justice lens on the urban fantasy genre. Each week she also participates in the Fangs for the Fantasy podcast, where she discusses the latest in urban fantasy. At Women's Eye on Media, where she is also a co-creator and shares editing and writing duties with fellow creator Holly Ord, she writes about social justice and the media. Her work has been published at The Guardian, Ms Blog and several small newspapers. She previously cross-posted her review of The Big C at Bitch Flicks as well as a film analysis titled, "African-American Romantic Comedies: Colorism." 

Molly McCaffrey teaches English and creative writing at Western Kentucky University. Her blog, I Will Not Diet, chronicles her effort to lose weight without unhealthy dieting and encourages readers to reject the notion that curvy women are not attractive. She has been nominated for a 2009 Pushcart Prize, and her work has appeared in numerous magazines and books. She is also co-editor of the newly released Commutability: Stories about the Journey from Here to There. She contributed reviews of Couples Retreat and Whip It to Bitch Flicks.

Melissa McEwan is the founder and manager of the award-winning political and cultural group blog Shakesville, which she launched as Shakespeare's Sister in October 2004 because George Bush was pissing her off. In addition to running Shakesville, she also contributes to The Guardian's Comment is Free America and AlterNet. She cross-posted her previews of The Dilemma and Horrible Bosses at Bitch Flicks.

Whitney Mollenhauer is a graduate student in California where she studies sociology. She has an awesome husband who doesn't mind her running feminist commentary when they watch movies together. And, she loves cereal. She contributed a review of Tangled to Bitch Flicks.

Vicky Moufawad-Paul is a curator, artist, film programmer, and the Artistic Director at A Space Gallery in Toronto. She earned a Masters of Fine Arts from York University, where she conducted research on the visual culture of Palestine. She was previously the founding Executive Director of the Toronto Arab Film Festival, and has worked at the Toronto International Film Festival Group. She was a member of the Visual and Media Arts Committee at the Toronto Arts Council, a founding member of the Advisory Board of the Palestine Film Festival, and a member of the Board of Directors at Trinity Square Video. Her writing has been published by Fuse Magazine, E-Fagia, the Arab American National Museum, and the Journal of Peace Research. She was also a contributor to the anthology Decentre: concerning artist-run culture/a propos de centres d’artistes (YYZ Books, 2008). Moufawad-Paul’s video art has been exhibited nationally and internationally. She contributed a review of Incendies to Bitch Flicks.

Deborah Nadler is a freelance writer and feminist finishing up her degree in Comparative Literature from Smith College, after which she hopes to become a physician. Despite her father's claim that "doctors don't write books," she has aspirations to become a published novelist. She contributed a review of 500 Days of Summer to Bitch Flicks.

Amanda ReCupido is a writer and arts publicist living in New York City. She is the author of the blog The Undomestic Goddess and can be found on Twitter at TheUndomestic. Her reviews for Bitch Flicks include HBO’s hit television show, Boardwalk Empire, and Quentin Tarantino’s film, Inglourious Basterds (for our 2010 Best Picture Nominee Review Series).

Drew Patrick Shannon received his Ph.D. in English from the University of Cincinnati, and currently teaches 19th and 20th century British literature at the College of Mount St. Joseph. He is at work on a novel and on a non-fiction book examining the diary of Virginia Woolf. He contributed a review of the 1986 film, Working Girls, to Bitch Flicks, which appeared in a previous version on his blog, atleswoolf.

Roopa Singh is finishing her Masters in Cinema Studies at Tisch/NYU, and got her law degree from UC Berkeley in 2003. She loves writing and teaching about the political context of contemporary popular culture, and often blogs at her site, http://politicalpoet.wordpress.com. And truly, she can't believe how much The King's Speech (which she reviewed for our 2011 Best Picture Nominee Review Series) had her empathizing with the damn Raj.

Kate Staiger lives in Cincinnati. Her current interests include: free-internet programs, fixing her toilet all by herself, and the band A Hawk and A Hacksaw. She contributed a review of Up in the Air for our 2010 Best Picture Nominee Review Series.

Elizabeth Tiller is a PhD student researching femme fatales in European cinema. Last year, she founded Stilwell Film, a non-profit that provides free outdoor film screenings to southern Johnson County, Kansas during July. In her spare time, she plays rugby, frequents karaoke nights, and watches high quality films like The Blue Lagoon. She contributed a review of Avatar for our 2010 Best Picture Nominee Review Series.

Natalie Wilson, PhD is a literature and women’s studies scholar, blogger, and author. She teaches at Cal State San Marcos and specializes in the areas of gender studies, feminism, feminist theory, girl studies, militarism, body studies, boy culture and masculinity, contemporary literature, and popular culture. She is the author of the blogs Professor, what if…? and Seduced by Twilight. She is a proud feminist mom of two feminist kids (one daughter, one son) and is an admitted pop-culture junkie. She contributed reviews of The United States of Tara, Nurse Jackie, Lost, Let Me In, and cross-posted her review of Toy Story 3 for our 2011 Best Picture Nominee Review Series.

Kevin Wolf cross-posted Your Review Is Scarier Than Scream 4, which originally appeared at Shakesville.