Angelina Mazza is a Brooklyn-based culture writer and arts reporter from Montreal. She is a 2026 National Critics Institute fellow at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center.
She covers books, television, fandom, and romance media for The New York Times, Vulture, LitHub, Slate, The Creative Independent, Defector, The Rumpus, and elsewhere.
She was recently a contributing editor on Slate’s advice desk. She also fact-checks magazine journalism and books, and she produced Not Now, But Soon, a podcast for Issues in Science and Technology.
Angelina holds an MA in Cultural Reporting & Criticism from New York University and a BA from McGill University. She is, obviously, a Cancer.
You can follow her on Instagram, Twitter, and Bluesky.
She is available for writing, editing, and research projects.
Get in touch: mazza.angelina [at] gmail.com
BOOKS
Why Is TikTok in This Book from 2006? — The New York Times
How Isaac Asimov Inspired a Star Romance Writer’s Swoony New Novel — The New York Times
She Put the Heat in Heated Rivalry — The New York Times
Enemies to Lovers: On the Romance Genre’s Mainstream Come-Up — Literary Hub
Actually, Goodreads is Good — Slate, featured in The Ann Friedman Weekly and ICYMI.
Emily Henry on the People We Meet on Vacation Adaptation — Salon
SCREENS
Heated Rivalry Adapts the Book’s Sex Scenes Beat by Beat — Vulture
Heated Rivalry’s Cinematographer Shot the Show for the Meme-Makers — Vulture
How Jury Duty Pulled Off Company Retreat — Vulture
A Detailed Review of the Sex Scenes in Heated Rivalry — Slate
How Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans Made KPop Demon Hunters — Slate
The First Great Pandemic Show Is Finally Here — Slate
Severance and Miraculous Ladybug Are Basically the Same Show — Paste
Get Well Soon, St. Denis Medical — Paste
Overcompensating is the Campus Comedy of the Year — Paste
How Overcompensating’s Mary Beth Barone Got the Part — Paste
Étoile Misses the Beat — Paste
Inside Christina Hendricks’ Whirlwind Prep for Good American Family — Paste
There’s More to the Story on Good American Family — Paste
Why Bob’s Burgers Holds a Special Place on TV — THIS Magazine
ESSAYS + INTERVIEWS
On Reflection— Maisonneuve, Longreads Editors’ Pick
The Revolution Will Be Extra-Curricular — Defector
Sabrina Imbler: On Not Waiting to Release Your Best Work — The Creative Independent
Lizzy McAlpine: On Finding What Feels Right — The Creative Independent
Dear Prudence: My Girlfriend Is Still Obsessed With Heated Rivalry. The Change in Her is Scaring Me.— Slate
Dear Prudence: I Moved Across the Country for Love. I Think I’ve Made a Huge Mistake. — Slate
Algorithm-Free Recommendation List — Stupid & Cute
Audio
How Hockey Romance Went Viral— ICYMI (Guest Co-Host)
The Alarm Clock That Woke Up #DemonTok — ICYMI (Guest Co-Host)
Not Now, But Soon — podcast miniseries for Issues in Science and Technology and ASU’s Center for the Imagination (Production + Sound Design)
In Stitches — Silver Sound Network, Winter 2025 Sonic Dash Finalist (Production)
POETRY
I Was a Loyal Swarm of Tween Mosquitoes — Peach Mag
LDR — Contemporary Verse 2 (CV2)
bible study — Underblong
poem for the apocalypse — Kissing Dynamite, The Poetry Foundation’s VS podcast
How to Emulate the Love Queens — Farrago, Awarded “Best Experimental Piece”
ANTHOLOGY
Here & Now: An Anthology of Queer Italian-Canadian Writing — Longbridge Books