Member Profile
Kristen Lopez
- Primary Outlet:
- Freelance
- Additional Outlets:
- The Film Maven, Variety, Salon, TheWrap
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- Biography:
- Kristen Lopez is a writer, editor, and disability advocate whose work has been published at Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, MTV, and Turner Classic Movies. She was previously the TV Editor at IndieWire, where her writing on disability in media garnered her nominations at both the SoCal Journalism Awards and National Journalism Awards by the LA Press Club. In 2023, her first book, But Have You Read the Book: 52 Literary Gems That Inspired Our Favorite Movies, was published by Turner Classic Movies and Running Press. Her next book, a film analysis and memoir hybrid focusing on disability in the movies, will be published by Applause Books in 2025. She is the host and producer of the film podcast Ticklish Business, focused on classic movies.
