Bios:
Dana Goodyear is an editor at The New Yorker, and a frequent contributor to the magazine. She is also the author of a collection of poems, Honey and Junk, the paperback edition of which will be published by Norton in October. Her poems have appeared in The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, The Paris Review, The Yale Review, Open City, and The American Poetry Review, as well as in The New Yorker. She lives in Los Angeles.
Clara Jeffery is co-editor-in-chief of Mother Jones. Before joining the magazine’s staff in 2003, she was an editor of Harper’s magazine for almost seven years. Seven pieces she edited have been finalists for National Magazine Awards, and some have appeared in editions of Best American Essays, Best American Travel Writing, Best American Sports Writing, and Best American Science Writing. Before Harper’s, Jeffery worked at Washington City Paper, where she wrote and edited political, investigative, and narrative features.
Gerald Marzorati is the editor of the New York Times Magazine, and an assistant managing editor of the Times, overseeing T: The Times Style Magazine and Play: The Times Sports Magazine, among other responsibilities. He began working at the Times Magazine in 1994. Before that, he worked as an editor at the New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, and the SoHo News, an alternative weekly. He lives with his wife and sons in Westchester County.
Scott Stossel has been associated with the Atlantic Monthly since 1992 when, shortly after graduating from Harvard, he helped launch The Atlantic Online. In 1996, he moved to The American Prospect where, over the course of seven years, he served as associate editor, executive editor, and culture editor. His articles have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe. His book Sarge: The Life and Times of Sargent Shriver was published in 2004. He rejoined the Atlantic in 2002. Scott divides his time between Washington and Boston, where he lives with his wife, daughter, dog, two cats, and many fish.
Bill Wasik is a senior editor of Harper’s Magazine, where he edits narrative journalism and essays and also compiles the magazine’s syndicated “Harper’s Index” column. His most recent article for Harper’s, “My Crowd,” detailed his anonymous creation of the first “flash mobs” in the summer of 2003; currently he is writing a book about Internet meme-making, to be published by Viking in 2008. Previously he worked as an editorial assistant at the New Yorker, and his writing has appeared in McSweeney’s, Salon, and Slate. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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