Sam Twyford-Moore is a writer and cultural critic. His first book, The Rapids: Ways of Looking at Mania, was published by NewSouth Publishing and the University of Toronto Press in North America. He was formerly Festival Director and CEO of the Emerging Writers’ Festival. As a writer he has contributed to a wide range of publications, including the Monthly, Senses of Cinema, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Sydney Morning Herald, and many others.