About

Lena Wilson is a Brooklyn-based journalist. Though primarily an arts critic focused on film, she also reports on online communities and lesbian culture. Whether writing deep dives on TikTok trends, interviewing her favorite filmmakers, or waxing poetic about horror movies, her voice is incisive, thoughtful, and often humorous. Her work has been published in Slate, The Playlist, Cosmopolitan, and The New York Times.

Lena also writes fiction and plays. Her 2016 play Fraying Live Wires Tend to Give Off Sparks and 2018 short play Who Are You? were both selected for production by Pride Films and Plays, and her novella Accelerants was released by Book Smugglers publishing (R.I.P.).

Lena was raised in Florida, where she often accompanied her father to his job at The Tampa Bay Times and hid in the TV critic’s office, watching VHS tapes of Cartoon Network shows. She now lives in Brooklyn and holes up with her girlfriend and their dogs, Young Neil and Knives, to stream Lifetime movies and arthouse oddities.

When not bingeing and writing about media, Lena likes to read books about cults, send greeting cards to her friends, and commit to ambitious crafting projects. She is currently cross-stitching a large tapestry that chronicles the life of Joan of Arc.

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