Rebecca Harkins-Cross is a writer and critic who has been based in Melbourne. Her work focuses on the connections between the arts, culture and society, and has appeared in the pages of Meanjin, Filmink, Senses of Cinema and Screen Machine. In 2018, she was the film columnist for The Lifted Brow, a PhD candidate at Monash University, and working on a collection of essays about the history of fear in Australian cinema.