Bio

Katie Walsh is a Los Angeles-based film critic. She reviews weekly film releases for the Tribune News Service and the Los Angeles Times, and is the Vice President of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. She co-hosted the One Heat Minute Productions podcast Miami Nice, and guest-hosted the Maximum Fun podcast Switchblade Sisters. Her writing has been published in GQ, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Playboy, Vulture, The Wrap, MEL Magazine, The Playlist, Nerdist, Slate, Certified Forgotten, The Hairpin, indieWIRE, Women and Hollywood, and Town & Country, and she frequently appears on KCRW’s Press Play with Madeline Brand, and on various film podcasts. She’s covered international film festivals as a critic and journalist, and at this point, has moderated probably hundreds of Q&As with filmmakers and actors in Los Angeles. She has also taught the Film Studies class “Practices of Writing About Film,” at the Dodge College of Film and Media Arts at Chapman University.

Katie earned her B.A. in Film Studies from Wesleyan University, and her M.A. in Critical Studies from the USC School of Cinematic Arts, where she also worked as an associate programmer of screenings and special events, and dropped out of a PhD program at the Annenberg School for Communications and Journalism. Her first job in the industry was in the publicity department at Lionsgate Films, and she produced the short film “The Better Half,” which premiered in competition at the 2009 SXSW Film Festival.

She is a native Virgin Islander, born and raised on the island of St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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