ROGER ANGELL has contributed to The New Yorker since 1944. He is a senior editor and a staff writer. Since 1962, Angell has written more than one hundred “Sporting Scene” pieces, mostly on baseball but also on tennis, hockey, football, rowing, and horseracing. In addition, he has written film reviews, stories, casuals, “Notes and Comment” pieces, and, for many years, the magazine’s Christmas verse, “Greetings, Friends!” His writing has appeared in many anthologies, including The Best American Sports Writing, The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Essays, and The Best American Magazine Writing. His work has also been collected in nine of his own books, among them The Stone Arbor and Other Stories, A Day in the Life of Roger Angell, and, most recently, Let Me Finish. His baseball books include The Summer Game, Five Seasons, Late Innings, Season Ticket, Once More Around the Park, A Pitcher’s Story, and Game Time. Nothing but You: Love Stories from The New Yorker is an anthology of fiction selected by him. He has won a number of awards for his writing, including a George Polk Award for Commentary, a Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement, and the Michael Braude Award for Light Verse, presented by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 2011 he was the inaugural winner of the PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Sports Writing. In 2014, Angell received the J. G. Taylor Spink Award, the highest honor given to writers by the Baseball Hall of Fame.
DONALD ANTRIM is the author of the novels Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World, The Hundred Brothers, and The Verificationist, as well as a memoir, The afterlife. He is a regular contributor to The New Yorker and an associate professor in the writing program at Columbia University. He is a 2013 MacArthur Fellow.
DAVID BERNSTEIN is the features editor at Chicago magazine. This year and in 2013 he and coauthor Noah Isackson were finalists for a National Magazine Award in the prestigious Reporting category. He has received numerous other awards, including from the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, the Society of Professional Journalists, the City and Regional Magazine Association, the Chicago Bar Association, and the Chicago Headline Club. Previously, Bernstein was a freelance writer, contributing frequently to the New York Times, Chicago, and Crain’s Chicago Business. His work has also appeared in The Best Technology Writing 2006 (Digital Culture Books) and The Best American Crime Reporting 2007 (Harper Perennial). He has a master of science in journalism from Medill.
TA-NEHISI COATES is a national correspondent for The Atlantic. He is the author of The Beautiful Struggle and Between the World and Me (forthcoming September 2015).
AMANDA HESS is a Slate staff writer and a contributor to the New York Times Magazine. She has written about Hollywood, sex, teenagers, and the Internet for places like ESPN the Magazine, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, Details, the Village Voice, the Los Angeles Times, and Pacific Standard. She cowrote the Book of Jezebel: An Encyclopedia of Lady Things and was featured in the anthology The Best American Sports Writing 2014. She lives in New York but left her heart scattered across several western states.
NOAH ISACKSON is a magazine writer based in Chicago. A contributing writer at Chicago magazine, his work has also appeared in Time, People, the Chicago Tribune Magazine, Time Out Chicago, the Boston Globe, and Men’s Health, among other publications. His work has received awards from the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, the Society of Professional Journalists, the City and Regional Magazine Association, the Chicago Headline Club, and the Chicago Bar Association and has been recognized as a notable selection in the anthology The Best American Sports Writing. In 2015 and in 2013, he and coauthor David Bernstein were finalists for a National Magazine Award in Reporting. Previously, Isackson was a general assignment reporter for the Chicago Tribune and the Associated Press, assigned to the Chicago and Sacramento, Calif., bureaus. He began his journalism career in 1997 after graduating from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.
MONICA LEWINSKY is a social activist, public speaker, writer, and consultant. As ambassador and strategic advisor to the antibullying organization Bystander Revolution, she has advocated for a safer social-media environment and has battled online harassment. A contributor to Vanity Fair, Lewinsky has a master’s degree in social psychology from the London School of Economics and has recently spoken at the Forbes 30 Under 30 Summit, the annual TED conference, and the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.
BRIAN PHILLIPS has been a staff writer for Grantland since 2011.
JERRY SALTZ is the senior art critic at New York magazine and its entertainment site Vulture.com, a leading voice in the art world at large, and an innovative user of social media. He joined the magazine’s staff in 2007, and his writing ranges from cover stories to reviews to quick online commentaries. He won a National Magazine Award for Columns and Commentary in 2015 and was a finalist for the same award in 2011. Saltz was previously the senior art critic at the Village Voice, where he was twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism (in 2001 and 2006) and was the recipient of the 2007 Frank Jewett Mather Award in Art Criticism from the College Art Association. A frequent guest lecturer at major universities and museums, Saltz was also the sole advisor on the 1995 Whitney Biennial. Saltz has written for Frieze, Modern Painters, Parkett, Art in America, Time Out New York, Flash Art, Arts magazine, and many others. His Village Voice columns were compiled into a book published by Figures Press, Seeing Out Loud: The Village Voice Art Columns, 1998–2003. A second volume of his criticism, Seeing Out Louder, was published by Hardpress Editions. Saltz appeared as a judge on Bravo’s Work of Art: The Next Great Artist for the show’s two seasons and has been a guest on CNN, CBS This Morning, NPR, and other news outlets.
JEFF SHARLET is the best-selling author of The Family, C Street, and Sweet Heaven When I Die. His edited books include Radiant Truths and Believer, Beware, and he is coauthor, with Peter Manseau, of Killing the Buddha. He is a contributing editor for Harper’s, Rolling Stone, and Virginia Quarterly Review and a frequent contributor to GQ. Sharlet is an associate professor of creative writing at Dartmouth College. Among his distinctions is belletrist Ann Coulter’s designation of him as one of the stupidest journalists in America.
TIFFANY STANLEY is a contributing writer at National Journal. She lives in Washington, D.C., where she is managing editor of Religion and Politics, the journal of the Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University in St. Louis. She has also written for The New Republic, The Daily Beast, and Paste, among other publications.
JOHN JEREMIAH SULLIVAN was born in 1974 in Louisville, Kentucky. He now lives with his wife and two daughters in North Carolina, where he writes books and essays. “The Ballad of Geeshie and Elvie” is part of a larger project having to do with the origins of the blues.
REBECCA TRAISTER is a journalist who covers women in politics, media, and culture from a feminist perspective. Currently a senior editor at The New Republic and a contributing editor at Elle, she spent ten years at Salon and has also written for the New York Times Magazine, The Nation, the Washington Post, the New York Observer, Glamour, Marie Claire, and elsewhere. Her first book, Big Girls Don’t Cry, about women in the 2008 election, was a New York Times Notable Book of 2010 and the winner of the Ernesta Drinker Ballard Book Prize. Her second book, about unmarried and late-married women in the United States, will be published by Simon and Schuster in early 2016.
JONATHAN VAN METER is a contributing editor at New York and Vogue as well as the founding editor of Vibe. He is the author of The Last Good Time: Skinny D’Amato, the Notorious 500 Club, and the Rise and Fall of Atlantic City.
JAMES VERINI is a writer based in Africa.
EMILY YOFFE is a Slate contributor who has written the magazine’s “Dear Prudence” advice column since 2006. She also writes for Slate about culture, health, politics, and science. Her writing has appeared in many publications, including Esquire, the Los Angeles Times, the New Republic, the New York Times, O the Oprah Magazine, and the Washington Post. She is the author of the book What the Dog Did: Tales from a Formerly Reluctant Dog Owner. She was a senior editor at Texas Monthly, where she won the Press Club of Dallas Investigative Reporting award for her story “The Deadly Doctor.” She was a John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University. She is a graduate of Wellesley College.