Storytelling and Hollywood

Alissa Wilkinson covers film and culture for Vox. Since 2006, her work has appeared in Rolling Stone, Bon Appétit, the Washington Post, Vulture, RogerEbert.com, the Atlantic, Books & Culture, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Paste, Pacific Standard, and others. Alissa is a member of the New York Film Critics Circle and the National Society of Film Critics, and was a 2017-18 Art of Nonfiction writing fellow with the Sundance Institute. Before joining Vox, she was the chief film critic at Christianity Today.

Alissa is also an associate professor of English and humanities at the King’s College in New York City, where she has taught criticism, cinema studies, and cultural theory since 2009. Her book Salty: Lessons on Eating, Drinking, and Living from Revolutionary Women (Broadleaf) was released in June 2022, and she’s currently writing her next book, We Tell Ourselves Stories (Liveright). She is also the co-author, with Robert Joustra, of How to Survive the Apocalypse: Zombies, Cylons, Faith, and Politics at the End of the World (Eerdmans, 2016). Alissa holds an MA in humanities and social thought from New York University and an MFA in creative nonfiction writing from Seattle Pacific University.

Bradford Winters has been a writer, producer, and showrunner on multiple television dramas, including “Oz,” “Boss,” “The Americans,” and “Berlin Station.”

Winters is the creator of the screen and comic book project “Americatown,” about the world’s first enclave of American immigrants living and working abroad in a dystopic near future. A hardcover edition of Volume One of the comic was published by Boom! Studios/Archaia tin 2016.

A former contributor to the arts and faith blog Good Letters at Patheos, Winters is also a published poet whose work has appeared in various journals.