Adam Rathe is a writer who lives in Brooklyn. He's previously worked
at The New York Press and The Brooklyn Paper.
Alena Smith writes plays, TV pilots, and fake Twitter accounts. She lives in Brooklyn. http://alenasmith.typepad.com
Alex Citrin is an illustrator living in Brooklyn. After studying fine art at Skidmore, she's done work for various national ad campaigns and publications. She has also had three illustrated books published and occasionally teaches Kindergarden art. See more at alexcitrin.com.
Andrew Rice has written for The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, The Economist, The New York Observer and other publications. His article “The Book of Wilson,” published in The Paris Review, received a Pushcart Prize. His book, The Teeth May Smile but the Heart Does Not Forget: Murder and Memory in Uganda, was published in May 2009.
Aparna Narayanan is a freelance writer based in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. She has reported on local and cultural issues for city publications after completing her master's degree in journalism from N.Y.U.
Avi Zenilman is a freelance writer and editor. He previously worked as a campaign reporter for Politico and as the online news editor of The New Yorker. He has also written for Slate, Washington Monthly, VanityFair.com, and the Washington Post's Plum Line blog.
Azi Paybarah is a reporter for Capital. He has covered politics for The New York Observer, WNYC, The New York Sun and the New York Press.
Ben Jacobs is a frequent contributor to the Boston Globe's editorial page. He can be reached at JacobsBenC@gmail.com.
Ben Parker is a doctoral student of English literature at Columbia University. His Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation (Which He Never Meant to Publish on Any Account) also appear on his blog They Call Them Millions and on Twitter.
Bethlehem Shoals is an editor at The Classical, a regular contributor to GQ.com, and a columnist at Tablet Magazine.
Brett Forrest has written for Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, and National Geographic, reporting from more than 30 countries. Find more of his articles here.
Brian Sholis writes about photography, landscape, and the American past. He is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of history at CUNY's Graduate Center. Read more here.
Cameron is an illustrator and story board artist living in Brooklyn, N.Y. Born and raised in Michigan, he moved to New York City to attend the School of Visual Arts, where he received his BFA in illustration. He is also a filmmaker, animator, musician and a Star Wars nerd.
Chris Chafin writes about things you can listen to, play, or consume at a variety of places, including The Awl, New York magazine's Vulture blog, and The Village Voice. His Tumblr is here.
Christina Knight is the editor at the Alliance for the Arts. Its web site NYC ARTS covers cultural groups and their events across the five boroughs. A former editor and writer for Fodor’s Travel Guides, she has also worked as a walking tour guide in Berlin and New York City.
Christopher Atamian is a writer and translator who has published several books as well as essays and reviews at numerous publications around the globe. He is co-producer of the Obie-award winning play, Trouble in Paradise, and writes about art and politics. He lives in Manhattan.
Claudia Carrera writes about music, arts, and culture and is a stage director for theater and opera.
Colin Leonard hails from New Jersey. At the moment he attends SUNY Purchase and is studying for a degree in literature and philosophy. In his spare time he writes and plays in the band Stolen Girls. Follow me at: http://colinwulf.tumblr.com/
Dan Rosenblum is a regular contributor to Capital. He has written for The Jersey Journal, The Mott Haven Herald and the Hunts Point Express. Read more at DanRosenblum.com.
Dana Rubinstein is a reporter for Capital. She has written for Bloomberg Businessweek, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the New York Observer, and the Brooklyn Paper.
Daniel J. Kushner is an arts journalist and music critic whose work has been published in Opera News, NewMusicBox, Symphony, The Brooklyn Rail, and elsewhere. He is Classical Music & Opera Editor at ArtsAmerica.org, blogs regularly for The Huffington Post, and hosts his own blog, You're So Post-Post-Rock Right Now.
Daphne Carr is a music journalist, critic, and scholar living in New York City. She is the Series Editor of Best Music Writing (Da Capo 2007-present), author of Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine (Continuum 2011), contributor to the books Out of the Vinyl Deeps: The Rock Writing of Ellen Willis; Marooned: The Next Generation of Desert Island Discs, and Listen Again.
David Balzer has written about art and film for The Believer, Artforum.com, ARTnews and The Globe and Mail. His short-fiction collection, Contrivances, comes out this spring.
David Copenhafer teaches literature and film at Bard High School Early College Queens. He is also a songwriter.
David Propson is deputy editor at THE WEEK magazine. He was previously cultural editor for the New York Sun.
Devin Leonard is a staff writer at Bloomberg Businessweek. He has also written for The New York Times, New York, Wired, The New York Observer and Fortune. His website is www.devinleonard.com
Edmund Lee's writing has appeared in The New York Times, the Daily News, New York, The Village Voice, Women's Wear Daily, Portfolio and Advertising Age, where he is currently a reporter. Twitter: @edmundlee.
Eliot Brown is a reporter living in Brooklyn. He writes for The Wall Street Journal and has covered real estate and politics for The New York Observer and The New York Sun.
Elizabeth is an intern at Capital, and an undergraduate at New York University. She was born in Cuba and raised in Miami.
Felipe Ossa is a financial reporter, focusing on structured finance and Latin America, and a playwright (Monetizing Emma, about a bank plot to securitize smart teenagers, and Cake, an international Trotskyite kidnap sex farce).
Gillian Reagan is public editor at Capital. She was previously media editor at The Business Insider and a reporter for The New York Observer. Her writing has also appeared in the New York Times and Bloomberg Businessweek.
Greg Hanlon is a writer and reporter whose sports writing has appeared in The New York Times and on Slate. He is currently working on a book about the 1986 Giants Super Bowl season. He lives in Brooklyn, and his email is greg.hanlon[at]gmail.com.
Harry Siegel, a lifelong Brooklynite, was the first op-ed page editor of The New York Sun, founder and editor of the Web magazine New Partisan, editor-in-chief of the alt-weekly New York Press, contributing editor for Politico and City Hall columnist for the Village Voice.
Howard Megdal is Writer At Large for Capital New York. He covers baseball, basketball, and soccer for The Journal News, MLBTradeRumors.com, and numerous other publications. His new book, Wilpon's Folly," is available here. Follow Howard on Twitter @HowardMegdal.
J. Edward Keyes has been writing about music for nearly 15 years. His work has appeared in Rolling Stone, The Village Voice, Entertainment Weekly, eMusic, Pitchfork and MAGNET, as well as the 2006 edition of Da Capo’s Best Music Writing series. His favorite record of all-time is 16 Lovers Lane by the Go-Betweens.
J. Gabriel Boylan is culture editor at Capital. He was previously an assistant editor at Harper's
Magazine.
J. Nicole Jones is an M.F.A. candidate in creative nonfiction at Columbia University. Her work has appeared on the Harper's Magazine website among other places.
Ex-editor turned this: Chief Strategist and Project Director of Hazan+Company, a design firm in Brooklyn, NY. Read more by me here.
James Guida is the author of Marbles, and of essays that have appeared in Tin House, Orion, and The Yale Review, among other places.
James Jorden is happy to have a chance for a change to write about something besides opera, which is what he writes about on his blog parterre.com and in the New York Post. He lives in Sunnyside with an editor and two cats.
Jason Diamond is the founder of Vol. 1 Brooklyn. His work has been published by The Paris Review, NPR.Org, Tablet, the A.V. Club, and many other places. He's currently at work on a book, and can be found on Twitter @imjasondiamond.
Jenna Sauers is a journalist and an editor at Jezebel.com. Originally from New Zealand, she lives in New York and writes about fashion and culture for publications including Bookforum, The New York Observer, The Village Voice, and Jalouse.
Jessanne Collins is an editor at Out and has contributed to Salon, The Awl, The Morning News, Radar, Time Out New York and The New York Observer.
Jimmy Vielkind is the political reporter for the Albany Times Union and principal contributor to its Capitol Confidential blog. He is also a regular contributor to 'New York NOW,' a weekly public television program examining New York politics and government. Jimmy has covered the Capitol for the New York Observer and TU. He lives in Troy.
Joe Coscarelli has contributed writing to The Village Voice, Salon, and Spin, among other publications.
Joe Pompeo covers media for Capital New York. He was previously a reporter at Yahoo! News, Business Insider and The New York Observer.
John R. Bohrer's work has appeared at Esquire.com, Politico, Salon, The Awl, USA Today and other publications. He is writing a book about Robert Kennedy and his young aides, 1964 to 1968. Twitter: @JRBoh
Jonah Westerman is an art historian based in New York. He writes about performance and mediation and is currently at work on a dissertation about European performance art after 1989 at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Josh Benson is a co-founder and co-editor of Capital. He was previously an editor and reporter at The New York Observer, and he wrote about New Jersey for The New York Times.
Joyce Tang is a writer based in New York City. Her work has appeared in Mother Jones, Double X, and The Miami Herald.
Juliet Linderman is a writer and reporter living in Greenpoint. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, The Village Voice, McSweeney's, and other publications. She's currently the arts and culture editor at the Brooklyn Paper, and is working on a book about refugee resettlement in the United States, to be published by McSweeney's this year. Follow her @JulietLinderman.
Katharine Jose is a writer and editor at Capital. She previously edited politics and wrote for the The New York Observer.
Kevin won a Livingston Award for International Reporting, won two National Mental Health Awards for excellence in reporting, won an Online Journalism Award, was a Carter Center reporting Fellow, received a Certificate of Commendation for reporting from the American Psychiatric Association and in 2011 was awarded a grant from the Fund for Investigative Journalism foundation "for investigative stories that otherwise would not be told." His website is JournalismWorksProject.org, his blog is EverySingleWordIsTrue.
Khristopher J. Brooks has been a reporter at the Omaha World-Herald, the Bristol (Va.) Herald Courier, the Associated Press, and NYTimes.com. A Detroit native, he is currently studying Literary Reportage at New York University. Follow him on Twitter.
Kyle Spencer is a New York-based freelance writer. Her work has appeared in New York magazine, Slate, Cosmopolitan, Real Simple, Baby Talk, The Baltimore Sun, The Miami Herald and The Prague Post. She is at work on a novel.
Lara Pellegrinelli is an arts journalist and scholar. She received her Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from Harvard University, focusing her research on jazz studies. Following a visiting professorship in the music department at the University of Richmond, she taught for the University of Virginia’s Semester at Sea program and visiting ten countries in 13 weeks. She currently teaches as a Visiting Lecturer at Princeton University. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Village Voice, and Time Out New York. She regularly contributes culture pieces to National Public Radio for shows including All Things Considered and Weekend Edition.
Leah Koenig is a freelance food writer and cookbook author. Her work has been published in The New York Times, Saveur, Gastronomica, Food Arts, Everyday with Rachael Ray, CHOW, Tablet magazine and The Forward among other publications. She's the author of The Hadassah Everyday Cookbook: Daily Meals for the Contemporary Jewish Kitchen (Rizzoli, 2011). Leah lives in Brooklyn with her husband, musician Yoshie Fruchter. Visit leahkoenig.com for more information.
Lecia is an intern at Capital New York, finishing her final year at NYU as a double major in Journalism and Studio Art. She has worked at Cleveland's member NPR station, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, and NBC Local Media as well as written for Washington Square News and The New Presence.
Mark Hay attends Columbia University where he is the Editor-in-Chief of Awaaz: The Voice of South Asia and the Columbia Political Review, and writes for Bwog and the Blue and White.
Mark has written about the arts for Billboard, Interview and other magazines. He’s edited scores of travel guides for Fodor’s Travel and has written about his favorite destinations for Out Traveler, In Style and online. He’s also a composer, and is hard at work on a new musical set to an '80s beat.
Mark Sussman is a writer and a doctoral candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center. He teaches American literature at Hunter College and lives in Brooklyn.
Matt Haber is the news editor of The Atlantic Wire. He's written for The New York Times, The New York Observer, and Esquire, among other publications.
Formerly a film critic for The New York Times, New York Press and The Star-Ledger, Matt Zoller Seitz is a filmmaker specializing in films about filmmaking. His documentaries can be viewed at the Museum of the Moving Image, the L Magazine, and YouTube. Seitz is also the founder of The House Next Door and a contributor to Salon.
Matthew Gurewitsch has covered the cultural waterfront since the 80s. For an archive of his work from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, etc., visit BeyondCriticism.com. He is also the author of the novel WHEN STARS BLOW OUT: A FABLE OF FAME IN OUR TIME.
Matthew Lombardi has written about sports and culture for ESPN, the BBC, and Fodor's Travel.
Matthew Wolfe is a writer who lives in Brooklyn. His work has appeared in The Nation and McSweeney's Internet Tendency. He can be reached at matthew.m.wolfe [at] gmail.com
Meredith Blake is a freelance journalist based in New York City. She writes about television for the Los Angeles Times and is a contributor to the New Yorker's literary blog, the Book Bench.
Michael McLaughlin is a reporter living in Brooklyn. His work has
appeared in the Daily News and The Brooklyn Paper.
A resident of the Upper West Side, Michael Oliva is a political consultant, writer and restaurant critic, who has written for New York Civic and Tenant Planet. His hobbies include deep sea fishing and snorkeling.
Michael Shapiro was five when the Dodgers left Brooklyn. He is a
professor of journalism at Columbia and is the author of eight books
about East Asia, child welfare, and baseball. His most recent book, Bottom
of the Ninth, is about Branch Ricky, Casey Stengel and the Continental League.
Michaelangelo Matos is a staff critic for Resident Advisor, and has written for Spin, Rolling Stone, The Village Voice, The Guardian and The Daily. He lives in Brooklyn.
Mitchell Blumenthal was an editor at The New York Times for more than 20 years. He served as assistant to the national editor and as New Jersey editor. Before the Times worked at newspapers in Philadelphia, New Jersey, Washington, Chicago and on Long Island.
Monique El-Faizy has written for the Guardian, the Washington Post, the Financial Times, Marie Claire, GQ and Glamour and has been on staff at the NY Daily News, the Philadelphia Inquirer, AP and the Bergen Record.
Nancy Scola is a political writer based in New York City. For three years, she was the associate editor and lead writer at techPresident, a daily online publication that covers the intersection of politics and technology. She is a contributor to the The American Prospect's TAPPED blog and has previously written for The Atlantic, New York, Salon and more. Her website is nancyscola.com.
Pavia Rosati was executive editor of DailyCandy.com. She lives in Manhattan and London and writes about food and travel.
Per Liljas is a journalist based in New York. He has previously written and photographed feature stories from South Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. Visit his website here.
Peter Terzian is the editor of Heavy Rotation: Twenty Writers on the Albums That Changed Their Lives. He has written for The New York Times, Bookforum, and the Paris Review Daily.
Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah teaches at Bard College. Her writing has appeared in The Paris Review, The New York Observer, Transition, and Rolling Stone.
Reid Pillifant is a political reporter for Capital. He was previously an editor and reporter at the New York Observer. Contact him at reid[at]capitalnewyork.com.
Bob Hardt is the political director and executive producer at NY1 News. An amateur classical pianist as a youth, Hardt became obsessed with opera after taking a required course in Music Humanities at Columbia College.
Rohin Guha is the author of the collection of short stories Relief Work. He currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.
Sarah Garland is staff writer at the Hechinger Report and has written for The New York Times, Newsweek, Newsday, The New York Sun, The New York Post, The Village Voice, New York Magazine, and Marie Claire. She is the author of Gangs in Garden City: How Immigration, Segregation and Youth Violence Are Changing America’s Suburbs.
Sarah Laskow is a freelance reporter living in New York City. As a staff writer at the Center for Public Integrity, she covered money and politics, coal mining, and homeland security. Her work has appeared in TheNation.com, Politico, and The American Prospect.
Sheila O'Malley's work has appeared in The Sewanee Review and Salon.com. She writes a monthly essay on film for Fandor, and also contributes pieces to The House Next Door, official blog of Slant Magazine. She contributes occasional reviews of film noir classics at Noir of the Week. Her personal blog is The Sheila Variations.
Simon Abrams writes about comics, books and movies for The Comics Journal, L magazine, The New York Press and Slant Magazine. You can find a lot of his writing here.
Sridhar Pappu has written for The New York Observer, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, New York and many other publications. He lives in Brooklyn.
Steve Brodner has been a satirical illustrator for 30 years, during which time he has drawn and written for the most prestigious publications in America and won many awards. He lives in Manhattan.Read more about Steve here.
Steve Kornacki is the news editor for Salon. He’s previously written about politics for The New York Observer and Roll Call, and his work has also appeared in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal and on The Daily Beast.
Steven Boone is a freelance film critic and video vandal based in New York. You can find his work at places like Keyframe, Roger Ebert's Far Flung Correspondents, and Big Media Vandalism.
Tamar Adler is the author An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace. (Scribner, October 2011) She is a former editor of Harper's Magazine, the founding head chef of Farm 255 in Athens, Georgia, and was a cook at Chez Panisse. Her writing has appeared in Harper's Magazine, The New York Times, The New Leader, Mother Jones, and elsewhere. She lives in Brooklyn.
Terry Golway teaches history at Kean University, and is the author of Washington's General: Nathanael Greene and the Triumph of the American Revolution, So Others Might Live and Together We Cannot Fail: FDR and the American Presidency in Years of Crisis. He was a member of the Times editorial board and city editor of The New York Observer.
Tom McGeveran is a co-founder and editor of Capital. He's previously served as Editor of The New York Observer and has also worked at The New York Blade.
Tom Scocca is managing editor of Deadspin. His book, Beijing Welcomes You, will be published by Riverhead in 2011.
Walter Fields is CEO and executive editor at NorthStarNews.com, and the former publisher of City Limits. He used to be political director of the New Jersey NAACP.
Wayne Hoffman is deputy editor of Nextbook Press. He is also managing director for special projects at Tablet Magazine. His novel, Hard, about a randy theater critic in Manhattan, was only partially autobiographical; his new novel, Sweet Like Sugar, is less autobiographical and, therefore, less randy.
Will Heinrich spent his early childhood in Japan and grew up in New York. His novel The King's Evil was published in 2003 and won a PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship in 2004. He writes about art for The New York Observer.
