Kaila Hale-Stern is an entertainment journalist and author. She was the Movies & TV Deputy Editor at Screen Rant and previously served as managing editor of The Mary Sue for half a decade. There she wrote as a film and television critic, with an emphasis on the intersectionality of emerging media. She was a senior writer at Gizmodo, specializing in online communities, and reviewed theatrical productions for io9. Her byline has appeared in New York Magazine's The Cut, Cosmopolitan, Wired, Gawker, Insider, and The Awl. She is also an author of historical fiction, and once helped open a magical brick-and-mortar bookstore. A native New Yorker, she lives in Brooklyn with her partner and a badly behaved cat.