Emily St. James is a writer and cultural critic, currently writing on the TV series Yellowjackets. During her journalism career, she served as the critic-at-large for Vox and the first TV editor of the A. V. Club. Her work has also appeared in the New York Times, Vanity Fair, and Vulture. She is the coauthor of Monsters of the Week: The Complete Critical Companion to The X-Files. She lives in Los Angeles, and is currently working on her debut novel.