Alexandra Heller-Nicholas is an award-winning film critic, author and academic from Melbourne, Australia. She has published nine books on cult, exploitation and horror cinema with an emphasis on gender politics, including two editions of her book Rape-Revenge Films: A Critical Study (2011/2021), Found Footage Horror Films: Fear and the Appearance of Reality (2014), The Giallo Canvas: Art, Excess and Horror Cinema (2021), as well as Masks in Horror Cinema: Eyes Without Faces (2019) and 1000 Women in Horror, 1895-2018 (2020), the latter two of which were finalists in the Bram Stoker Awards® Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction categories in two consecutive years. Alexandra has also written books on Dario Argento''s Suspiria, Abel Ferrara's MS. 45, and Robert Harmon's The Hitcher, as well as co-editing books on Peter Strickland, Elaine May, the collaborations of Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani, and the large format book Wonderland on Lewis Carroll's Alice in film, which coincided with the Australian Centre for the Moving Image exhibition of the same name. Alexandra is an Adjunct Professor at Deakin University, on the advisory board for Miskatonic Institute for Horror Studies, and a member of the Alliance of Women Film Journalists.