Lina Abascal is a writer and filmmaker. She lives in Los Angeles, where she was born and raised.

She grew up contributing to rock zines and later dance music blogs, sneaking around Hollywood with a fake ID interviewing your favorite musicians. She studied journalism in San Francisco before moving to New York, where she wrote the VICE column ‘Around the World in 80 Raves.’ 

Her first book, Never Be Alone Again: How Bloghouse United the Internet and the Dancefloor (2021) was a national bestseller and nominated for the Music in Culture award by the American Musicology Society.

In 2024, Lina directed her first film, the award winning short documentary Stud Country. Like much of her work, she likes to focus on lesser known subcultural movements and music driven stories across documentary and narrative.

Email her and say hello. Her literary agent is Clare Mao at Sanford J. Greenburger Associates.