Bio

Katie Walsh is a Los Angeles-based film critic, journalist, podcast host, moderator, and lecturer. She reviews weekly film releases for the Tribune News Service, the Los Angeles Times, and The Wrap, and is a member of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. She guest hosted the dearly departed Maximum Fun podcast Switchblade Sisters, and is the co-host of the One Heat Minute Productions podcast Miami Nice. Her writing has been published in GQ, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Playboy, Vulture, MEL Magazine, The Playlist, Nerdist, Slate, Certified Forgotten, The Hairpin, indieWIRE, Women and Hollywood, and Town & Country, and she frequently contributes film reviews to KCRW’s Press Play with Madeline Brand. She has covered many international film festivals as a critic and reporter, and has moderated dozens of Q&As with filmmakers and actors around LA. She has been a part-time lecturer at Chapman University, teaching the Film Studies class “Practices of Writing About Film.”

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. She also worked in the publicity department at Lionsgate Films, and 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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