Sinéad Stubbins is a writer, editor and cultural critic in Melbourne. She was on the writing staff for The Weekly with Charlie Pickering, on the ABC, had a TV column in The Age and Sydney Morning Herald and wrote popular TV recaps for Junkee, most notably on Game of Thrones, The Bachelor and The Bachelorette and Neighbours. She writes about TV, film, music and culture for The Guardian, Harpers Bazaar, ELLE, frankie, The Big Issue, The Age, Vulture, The Cut, Pitchfork and The Saturday Paper.
She has appeared on panels at The Wheeler Centre, the Emerging Writers’ Festival, National Young Writers’ Festival and Melbourne International Film Festival. Her work appears in two frankie press collections, Something to Say and Look What We Made, and the University of Queensland Press essay collection, Doing It.
Her first book In My Defence, I Have No Defence, was released by Affirm Press in June 2021. Her first novel Stinkbug was released in 2025.