ROBERT ANASI is the author of The Gloves: A Boxing Chronicle and The Last Bohemia: Scenes from Life in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. His journalism, interviews, and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, the Times Literary Supplement, Virginia Quarterly Review, the New York Observer, Salon, and Publishers Weekly. He received his PhD from the University of California, Irvine, where he was both a Schaeffer and Chancellor’s Club Fellow. He is also a founding editor of the literary journal Entasis.
BRIN-JONATHAN BUTLER has written for SBnation, ESPN Magazine, Harper’s, the Paris Review, Esquire, Salon, and Vice. He published his second book with Picador USA in 2015, a memoir of his time in Cuba: The Domino Diaries: My Decade Boxing with Olympic Champions and Chasing Hemingway’s Ghost in the Last Days of Castro’s Cuba.
DONOVAN CRAIG lives in Georgia with his wife and their two children. He has covered combat sports on four continents and to this day is the only journalist to cover a mixed martial arts competition in an active warzone—in Mosul, Iraq, in 2008. When he sold stocks, he once talked a preacher into mortgaging his house to cover a margin call. Today he abhors all lies. Jack Dempsey is still his hero.
SARAH DEMING’S essays about boxing, booze, and sex have appeared in the Threepenny Review, Penthouse Forum, the Washington Post, the Guardian, and Stiff Jab. She is the author of the children’s novel Iris, Messenger, ghostwriter of several erotic novels, and researcher for the ultramarathon memoir Eat and Run. Sarah won a Pushcart Prize, a MacDowell Fellowship, and around half of her amateur fights. She coaches at Atlas Cops and Kids, a free youth boxing gym in Brooklyn.
MICHAEL EZRA has been in post-prime decline since 1979, when he won the spelling bee and made the all-star team. These days he works as a college professor and is the author of Muhammad Ali: The Making of an Icon and the editor of the Journal of Civil and Human Rights. He lives in California with his wife, daughter, and cat.
CHARLES FARRELL has spent his professional life moving between music and boxing, with occasional detours. He has managed five world champions, and played and recorded with many of the musicians he most admires—Ornette Coleman, Evan Parker, and Jim Schapperoew among them.
RAFAEL GARCIA was born in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. He became a fan of the sweet science at age seven while watching Julio Cesar Chavez versus Meldrick Taylor. He has covered dozens of live cards throughout the United States and Canada and writes exclusively for The Fight City. He obtained his master’s degree from Concordia University in Montreal, where he currently lives with his girlfriend and baby daughter.
GORDON MARINO is professor of philosophy and director of the Hong Kierkegaard Library at St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota. He is the boxing writer for the Wall Street Journal and a regular contributor to The Ring. The former head coach of boxing at Virginia Military Institute, Marino has been training fighters since 1994.
LOUIS MOORE is associate professor of history at Grand Valley State University, where he teaches African American history, civil rights, sports, and US history. His research and writing examine interconnections between race, gender, and sports. He is finishing Beyond the Battle Royal, a book about boxing, black manhood, and race in America from 1880 to 1915 and is also under contract to write a book about the black athlete and the civil rights movement.
GARY LEE MOSER, who was instantly and totally captured by the classic middleweight battle between Nino Benvenuti and Luis Rodriguez in 1969, has amassed a prodigious personal library of boxing memorabilia that has fostered his abiding interest in the analysis of career records, with particular appreciation for sustained excellence over the merely meteoric. A retired corporate accountant, he is a stock day trader and continues a quest to run the Boston Marathon despite the lasting effects of a car crash in 1987.
HAMILTON NOLAN has written for Gawker since 2008 and covers boxing for Deadspin and HBO. He lives in Brooklyn.
GABE OPPENHEIM has written two books, one of which examines the lives of boxers in the hard-knocks city of Philadelphia. His articles and essays—on boxing, on Cuba, on postage in the Himalayas—have appeared in the Washington Post, Rolling Stone, Vice, and other outlets. He writes and lives in New York and is currently at work on a forthcoming novel set in the pulpy yakuza underworld of 1960s Tokyo.
CARLO ROTELLA’S books include October Cities, Good with Their Hands, Cut Time, and Playing in Time. He is a regular contributor to the New York Times Magazine, and his work has also appeared in the New Yorker, Harper’s, Slate, the Boston Globe, The Believer, and The Best American Essays. A recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, the Whiting Writers Award, and the L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award, he is director of American Studies at Boston College.
SAM SHERIDAN washed dishes on the USNS Able after high school, and from there it was a short step to Harvard University. Sam has worked as a professional sailor, a wild-land firefighter with the Gila Hotshots, a ranch-hand on the largest cattle ranch in Montana, and a construction worker at the South Pole Station in Antarctica. He’s the author of A Fighter’s Heart, The Fighter’s Mind, and The Disaster Diaries.
CARL WEINGARTEN is an American music producer, slide guitarist, photographer, writer, and film collector. As a teenager studying filmmaking, he was inspired by the excitement surrounding the first Muhammad Ali–Joe Frazier fight and soon became an avid boxing enthusiast. His passion for boxing history includes a lifelong pursuit and study of historic fight films. He has consulted for and provided footage to Sports Illustrated, ESPN, documentaries, and public schools. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.