Gina Eff. is an independent scholar and an horror enthusiast with an M.A. degree in Film Studies. As a cinephile and a fan especially of Canadian cinema, she has served in coordinator roles in Ottawa with Cellar Door Film Festival (2014 , 2015), Eve Film Festival, and in Toronto with TIFF and the NFB briefly, and with The Black Museum horror and lecture series at the Royal Theatre.

Her works have been published via the American Review of Canadian Studies, Anatomy of a Scream (featuring interviews with directors like Rose Glass, Annalise Lockhart, and Pat Mills) and Grim Magazine. She is co-editor and co-author of The Canadian Horror Film: Terror of the Soul (University of Toronto Press: 2015), and a contributor to Cinema of Pain: On Quebec’s Nostalgic Screen (Wilfred Laurier University Press: 2020).

Gina currently serves as Training and Event Producer with the Ontario Library Association and spends her spare time catching up on the latest horror books and movies, eating popcorn, cuddling her black cat, and planning trips and home projects with her husband.