Christiana Spens is a writer, academic and artist who was born in Melbourne and raised in Scotland. She is the author of The Portrayal and Punishment of Terrorists in Western Media (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), Shooting Hipsters (Repeater Books, 2016) and the forthcoming The Fear (Repeater Books, 2023). She writes regularly for The Irish Times, Prospect, Studio International and The London Magazine on art, books and politics.