Masha Tupitsyn is a writer, critic, and multi-media artist. She is the author of several books like Love Dog, Like Someone in Love: An Addendum, LACONIA: 1,200 TWEETS ON FILM, Beauty Talk & Monsters, and co-editor of the anthology, Life As We Show It: Writing on Film. Her fiction and criticism has been published widely in journals and anthologies. In 2015, she completed the film LOVE SOUNDS, a 24-hour audio-essay and history of love in English-speaking cinema. Her new durational film, DECADES, a study of time using film sound, is forthcoming in 2017. She teaches film, literature, and gender studies at The New School and Pratt in New York City. Her Tumblr, is Love Dog http://mashatupitsyn.tumblr.com/