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Elina Shatkin

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Elina Shatkin is a journalist, writer, and occasional filmmaker. She was previously a senior editor at Los Angeles magazine, a restaurant critic for LA Weekly, and a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times. Her work has appeared in such publications as Bitch, Drink: Los Angeles and HiLobrow, and on the radio at KCRW and KPCC. She is writing an unauthorized biography of Jem and the Holograms.

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