Our Contributors
Our contributors aren’t your usual health and wellness suspects. They’re thinkers sharing a POV that is often messy, funny, and unexpected — but always deeply human.
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A. Andrews
Writer and cartoonist, creator of A Quick & Easy Guide to Sex & Disability, and one of The Advocate’s People of the Year (2021). Their work has been published in The Washington Post, Autostraddle, Glamour, and more.
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Jenni Avins
Los Angeles-based writer and editor whose work has appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine, and many more publications.
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Justina Blakeney
Multidisciplinary artist, AD100 designer, New York Times bestselling author, and founder of Jungalow®.
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Xiomara Bovell
A former dancer, strategist, and boutique fitness instructor who writes about arts and performance in her Substack Live Cultures.
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Cory Bradshaw
Adult content creator and writer based in Los Angeles.
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John Paul Brammer
Brooklyn-based author and illustrator from Oklahoma and the creator of ¡Hola Papi!, the hit LGBTQ advice column and memoir-in-essays. His work has appeared in The Washington Post, Food & Wine, and Guernica
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Diana Branzan
Brooklyn-based illustrator and Pratt grad known for working with textures and patterns.
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Lorin Brown
Designer, illustrator, and educator at CalArts and Maine College of Art & Design. AIGA Boston board member, currently living and working in Maine.
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Khaila Carr
Illustrator and fine artist drawing on influences from dreams, fantasy, psychedelia, and her Filipino American heritage.
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Jamie Cattanach
Pushcart Prize-nominated writer whose work has been featured in CNBC, SELF, USA Today, Fourth Genre, Colorado Review, Psyche, and many more.
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Amélie Cherlin
Copy editor for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Artisan Books, and Raab & Co., among others. Previously managing editor of The Hollywood Reporter and copy chief of WSJ. Magazine.
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Thomas Colligan
Swiss illustrator and designer based in New York. Co-founder of TXTBooks, an indie publisher featured at the NY and LA Art Book Fairs and Yale’s Odds and Ends.
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Erin Crapser
Builds and markets technology products. Enjoys reading print periodicals, eating pupusas at the farmers market, and taking pictures of insane bumper stickers.
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Julia Craven
Writer and editor whose work has been published in The Best American Science and Nature Writing, The Washington Post, New York Magazine, and more.
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Evelyn Crowley
Brooklyn-based editor and content strategist who’s worked with publications (The Village Voice, Vogue) and brands (Spotify, Fenty) alike.
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Alex Dobrenko
Writer, comedian, and lil guy who lives in Asheville, NC with his two kids and wife and dog Robert. He writes Both Are True, a newsletter of funny, weird, vulnerable stories about his life as a writer, comedian, and lil guy.
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Jocelyn Florence
Founding team member of Prism, sometime editor, sometime writer, and full-time partner at Prism parent company, Parallel.
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Alicia Gearty
A multidisciplinary designer with experience spanning advertising, branding, events, and digital. Off-duty, she obsesses over maps, typography, Muji pens, and her cats.
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Molly Gott
A writer living in Ann Arbor, Michigan whose work has appeared in The Southern Review and Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading.
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Phinehas Hodges
Writer and director based in Los Angeles, currently developing a dark sci-fi satire series and a memoir about his unconventional childhood.
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Samm Hodges
Los Angeles-based writer and director raised off-grid in Washington’s backwoods. Co-creator of Downward Dog and director of the Sundance short Tender.
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Mitchell S. Jackson
Winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize and National Magazine Award in Feature Writing, and author of the novel The Residue Years and the memoir Survival Math.
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Morgan Jerkins
Writer, editor, educator, and two-time National Magazine Award winner whose work spans The New Yorker to The Atlantic.
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Mitra Jouhari
Writer and comedian, best known as co-creator and star of Three Busy Debras on Adult Swim.
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Ciara Keane
Founding team member of Prism, LA-based creative strategist, community gatherer, and writer paying close attention. Interested in rocks and where to find them.
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Alicia Kennedy
San Juan–based food writer with a weekly newsletter on culture, politics, and media. Currently at work on a book about ethical eating for Beacon Press.
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Lisa Lombardi
Former executive editor of Health and co-author of What the Yuck?! Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, Real Simple, Glamour, Time, Marie Claire, and The New York Times.
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Matt Martin
Los Angeles-based photographer and photo editor focused on portraits and still lifes.
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Juliet Monireh
Iranian-American writer and artist based in Brooklyn who merges visual and prose storytelling to explore diasporic identity and spirituality.
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Ana Monroe
Artist, human-centered designer, and former civil servant proudly fired by DOGE in early 2025. Lives in Los Angeles with her family, where she is leaning into the former two, having been prevented from being the latter.
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Maggie Morris
Bi-coastal writer and art director covering travel, culture, and modern life. Her work appears in Dossier, Departures, and other publications.
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P.E. Moskowitz
Writer born and raised in New York City whose work has appeared in New York, GQ, The Nation, and many other places. They run a popular Substack called Mental Hellth about psychology, psychiatry, and culture.
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Mari Naomi
Author and illustrator of award-winning graphic novels and comic memoirs. Their work has appeared in The New Yorker and at the Asian Art Museum.
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Meghan Nesmith
Writer and editor with bylines in the Boston Globe, Gossamer, and more.
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Ismene Ormonde
Culture writer and essayist based in London, with words in The Guardian, Observer, and Byline, amongst others.
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Rebecca Prusinowski
Writer, editor, and content executive with a proven track record of anticipating consumer trends who’s been at the forefront of industry-disrupting media companies and DTC lifestyle brands alike.
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Ali Shapiro
Professor of writing at University of Michigan’s Stamps School of Art & Design. Her comics, poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in various journals, including Gertrude, Prairie Schooner, The Rumpus, and Electric Literature.
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Reece Sisto
Content strategist, writer, and self-described malefactor in Los Angeles. Currently helping communities reimagine public safety at the Center for Policing Equity.
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Annakeara Stinson
LA-based writer whose debut novel, Nerve Damage, is forthcoming from Knopf in 2026.
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Anna Williams
LA-based tattoo artist and illustrator drawing inspiration from deco, art nouveau, and mod styles. She creates colorful works for walls, homes, and bodies — despite dressing only in black and white.
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Florencio Zavala
Creative director, designer, artist, and founder of Estudio Zavala, his eponymous conceptual design practice tackling global needs through local action. Clients include The California Endowment, Playboy, Honda Latino, IntoAction!, and the City of LA.
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