Gina Arnold

Gina Arnold Ph.D
Born	Regina A. Arnold Palo Alto, CA
Occupation	Author Academic
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Stanford University University of California, Berkeley University of California, Los Angeles
Subject	Music
Notable works	33⅓ Exile in Guyville Route 666: On the Road to Nirvana
Notable awards	National Arts Journalism Fellowship (Columbia University/Pew Organization)
Years active	1981-present

Gina Arnold is an American author, music critic, and academic. A lecturer at Stanford University and an adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco, she is the author of several books, including the 33⅓ book on Liz Phair, Exile in Guyville, which the New York Times described as "charming and brave and unexpectedly moving."

Between 1981 and 2003, Arnold contributed to publications including Spin, Entertainment Weekly, the Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, and the Village Voice. Additionally, she wrote columns for the East Bay Express, Metro Silicon Valley and the San Jose Metro. Written in the first person, her work was frequently controversial. "In the ten years that Gina Arnold wrote for this paper, no one received more hate mail," the East Bay Express wrote in 2003.

Arnold grew up in Palo Alto, California. As a teenager, she attended the Sex Pistols' 1978 Winterland show in San Francisco—their final show in their original incarnation—and disagreed with a negative review which subsequently appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle. Arnold wrote an angry letter to the editor in rebuttal. Her letter was published, and the Chronicle began to offer her assignments to cover music.

She was recruited for the swim team at UCLA, and attended the university for a year. She then transferred to University of California, Berkeley, where she graduated with a degree in communications.

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