Writer. Photographer. 
Film Scholar.

Kathy Michelle Chacón is a Salvadoran-American film critic and scholar whose work has been featured at Paste Magazine and Film Cred. She was born and raised in California’s Inland Empire and received a Bachelor of Arts in Media and Cultural Studies from the University of California, Riverside in 2020. She is a Gates Cambridge Scholar at the University of Cambridge, where she is currently completing a MPhil in Film and Screen Studies at King’s College. Her research interests include maternal horror cinema and feminist film theory.