Ian Spelling
Expertise
Star Trek, X-Files, 1980s Horror Flicks
- Ian has covered Star Trek since the 1980s, writing a weekly column for 25 years, contributing stories to the licensed magazines, moderating panels at conventions, authoring the book, Star Trek: The Original Series: A Celebration, and appearing as an extra in one episode each of Deep Space Nine and Voyager.
- For more than 28 years, Ian penned a celebrity interview every week, which adds up to more than 1,400 features.
- Linda, Ian's loving but hard-to-impress wife, was duly impressed when, in the same week, he met Paul McCartney at the Beatle legend's office for an interview, and then conducted an hour-long, career-spanning interview with Steven Spielberg.
Experience
Ian kicked off his writing career with a couple of articles about movies – naturally – for his high school newspaper, and then stepped it up a notch for his college paper, the Albany Student Press, penning interviews, reviews, previews, and more. He shifted to public relations after college, but continued to write as a freelancer for newspapers and magazines. In addition to writing for The New York Times Syndicate and writing and editing for StarTrek.com, Ian has contributed to TV Guide, People, OnDirecTV, The Chicago Tribune, SciFi.com, Reader's Digest, Smoke Magazine, New Haven Register, The A.V. Club, and numerous other outlets. He has served as an editor at /Film since 2022.
Education
Ian has bachelor's degree in English from SUNY Albany.
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