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.

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). Based in Philadelphia, their work has been published in The Washington Post, Autostraddle, Glamour, and more.
Jenni Avins

Los Angeles-based writer and editor whose work has appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine, and many more publications.
Jennifer Berney

Jennifer Berney is a writer and multimedia artist committed to scrappy art-making in the digital age. Her forthcoming book, co-written with Sarah Tavis, is an illustrated handbook on analog creative practice. Her memoir on queer family building, The Other Mothers, was a Washington State Book Award finalist. She co-authors a weekly newsletter, The Scrap Heap, on healing and creativity.
Justina Blakeney

Multidisciplinary artist, AD100 designer, New York Times bestselling author, and founder of Jungalow. She has spent her career challenging narrow definitions of beauty — inviting creativity, culture, and personal story to take root and thrive.
Xiomara Bovell

A former dancer, strategist, and boutique fitness instructor who writes about arts and performance in her Substack Live Cultures and organizes bi-monthly field trips to shows across NYC.
Cory Bradshaw

Adult content creator and writer based in Los Angeles. You can read some of his less-safe-for-work writing on his Substack, Cory Bradshaw.
John Paul Brammer

Creator of ¡Hola Papi!, the hit LGBTQ advice column and memoir-in-essays. His work has appeared in The Washington Post, Food & Wine, Guernica, and more.
Diana Branzan

Brooklyn-based illustrator and Pratt grad known for working with textures and patterns.
Lorin Brown

Designer, illustrator, and educator at CalArts and Maine College of Art & Design. AIGA Boston board member, currently living and working in Maine.
Khaila Carr

Illustrator and fine artist drawing on influences from dreams, fantasy, psychedelia, and her Filipino American heritage. She holds a BFA from the Columbus College of Art and Design.
Jamie Cattanach

Pushcart Prize-nominated writer whose work has been featured in CNBC, SELF, USA Today, Fourth Genre, Colorado Review, Psyche, and many more.
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.
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.
Lydi Conklin

Lydi Conklin has received a Stegner, four Pushcart Prizes, and fellowships from MacDowell and Yaddo. Their story collection, Rainbow Rainbow, was longlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Award and The Story Prize. Their novel, Songs of No Provenance, was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize.
Erin Crapser

Builds and markets technology products.
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.
Evelyn Crowley

Brooklyn-based editor and content strategist who’s worked with publications (The Village Voice, Vogue) and brands (Spotify, Fenty) alike.
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.
Liana Finck

Cartoonist, illustrator, and regular contributor to the New Yorker. Her work appears in The New York Times, The Atlantic, and New York Magazine, and more.
Jocelyn Florence

Founding team member of Prism, sometime editor, sometime writer, and full-time partner at Prism parent company, Parallel.
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.
Molly Gott

A writer living in Ann Arbor, Michigan whose work has appeared in The Southern Review and Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading.
Phinehas Hodges

Writer and director based in Los Angeles, currently developing a dark sci-fi satire series and a memoir about his unconventional childhood.
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.
Piper J. Daniels

Piper J. Daniels is the author of Ladies Lazarus (2018, Tarpaulin Sky Press), and co-author of Double Indemnities (forthcoming, University of Nebraska Press). She’s an MSW candidate at the University of Michigan and proud lesbiaunt to an amazing niece and nephew.
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.
Morgan Jerkins

Writer, editor, educator, and two-time National Magazine Award winner whose work spans The New Yorker to The Atlantic.
Mitra Jouhari

Writer and comedian, best known as co-creator and star of Three Busy Debras on Adult Swim.
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.
Alicia Kennedy

Food writer and author of No Meat Required and On Eating exploring food, culture, politics, and appetite.
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.
Matt Martin

Los Angeles-based photographer and photo editor focused on portraits and still lifes.
Sara McGrath

Sara McGrath is a writer and cartoonist based in Los Angeles, CA. You can find more of her work on Instagram here.
Juliet Monireh

Iranian-American writer and artist based in Brooklyn who merges visual and prose storytelling to explore diasporic identity and spirituality.
Ana Monroe

LA based artist, human-centered designer, and former civil servant proudly fired by DOGE in early 2025.
Maggie Morris

Bi-coastal writer and art director covering travel, culture, and modern life. Her work appears in Dossier, Departures, and other publications.
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. Their popular Substack, Mental Hellth, covers psychology, psychiatry, and culture.
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.
Meghan Nesmith

Writer and editor with bylines in the Boston Globe, Gossamer, and more.
Ismene Ormonde

Culture writer and essayist based in London, with words in The Guardian, Observer, and Byline, amongst others.
Rebecca Prusinowski

Writer, editor, and content executive who’s been at the forefront of industry-disrupting media companies and DTC lifestyle brands alike. Rebecca leads content for Prism’s publisher, Parallel.
Britany Robinson

Journalist, essayist, and obituary writer. Britany is also the editor of Connecticut Woodlands Magazine, where she covers the environment and trails. You can read her candid reflections on the professional writing life on her Substack, Wild Writing.
Ali Shapiro

Professor of writing whose comics, poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in various journals, including Gertrude, Prairie Schooner, The Rumpus, and Electric Literature.
Reece Sisto

Content strategist, writer, and self-described malefactor in Los Angeles. Currently helping communities reimagine public safety at the Center for Policing Equity.
Annakeara Stinson

LA-based writer whose debut novel, Nerve Damage, is forthcoming from Knopf in 2026.
Anson Tong

Anson Tong is a writer, photographer, and behavioral scientist. Her writing has appeared in Chicago Review of Books, Chicago Sun-Times, The Brooklyn Rail, Mental Hellth, Joysauce, The Rumpus, Stanford Social Innovation Review, and other publications. Her newsletter and photography can be found through her website.
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.
Rebecca Woolf

Personal essayist and author of Rockabye: From Wild to Child (Seal Press, 2008) and the bestselling memoir, ALL OF THIS: A Memoir of Death and Desire (Harper One, 2022).
Florencio Zavala

Creative director, designer, artist, and founder of Estudio Zavala, his eponymous conceptual design practice tackling global needs through local action.