Alissa Wilkinson is a Writer and teacher living in New York City.

She’s a movie critic at the New York Times, and her latest book is We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine (Liveright, 2025).

Alissa is a seasoned professor of creative nonfiction writing and the humanities. She writes about pop culture, the Internet, media, religion, history, food, and women’s lives — and, especially, where they all intersect.