The Shapiro Center at Wesleyan

Aliza Abarbanel

Aliza Abarbanel is a freelance writer and editor based in Brooklyn. She is the co-founder, co-editor, and lead event producer of Cake Zine, a contributing editor at TASTE, and a co-host of the podcast This is TASTE. Previously an editor at Bon Appetit, her writing has appeared in New York Magazine, GQ, The Los Angeles Times, and The New York Times.

Daisy Alioto

Daisy Alioto is the co-founder of Dirt Media. Her journalism and nonfiction have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Paris Review Daily, The New Republic, and The Los Angeles Review of Books among others.

Ratik Asokan

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Lou Bahet

Lou Bahet is the executive editor of The Metropolitan Review, a books and culture magazine she co-founded in 2025 and art directed into its debut print issue. She is a three-time fellow of the Writers’ Institute, in fiction and nonfiction, including a recent residency at its Bogliasco Center program.

Jon Baskin

Jon Baskin is a founding editor of The Point and the coordinator of the Program for Public Thinking, a joint initiative between The Point and the University of Chicago. He currently teaches in the NYU Cultural Reporting and Criticism department; formerly, he was deputy editor of Harper’s and served as associate director of the Creative Publishing and Cultural Journalism program at the New School.

Isabel Bekele

Isabel Bekele is an Ethiopian-American journalist based in New York City. Currently, she is the US Editorial and Social Media Assistant at Dazed. Previously, her work has appeared in InStyle, Teen Vogue, Forbes, and more.

Lisa Borst

Lisa Borst is a coeditor-in-chief of n+1, where she’s worked since 2019 in a range of roles. Her writing has appeared in Bookforum, The Baffler, Harper’s, and the anthology The Intellectual Situation: The Best of n+1’s Second Decade. 

Brodie Crellin

Brodie Crellin is an editor at Granta Magazine and the author of A Sense of Occasion, published earlier this year by Riverhead Books and Jonathan Cape. Their short fiction is forthcoming with McSweeney’s and The Yale Review.

Mia Foster

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Emily Greenhouse

Emily Greenhouse is the editor of The New York Review of Books, a magazine of politics, literature, art, and ideas founded in 1963. She is the first woman to be sole editor of the magazine, and when she was appointed was the youngest editor in its history. Previously, she worked as a reporter and as the Managing Editor at The New Yorker. Greenhouse is a Moynihan Public Scholar at City College. She is on the advisory board of Hell Gate and the National Book Critics Circle.

Daniel Gumbiner

Daniel Gumbiner is the author of two novels, The Boatbuilder and Fire in the Canyon. He is the Editor of The Believer, which received the 2026 National Magazine Award for Essays and Columns. 

Lovia Gyarkye

Lovia Gyarkye is an editor at Hammer & Hope, a magazine of Black politics and culture. Her work has appeared in The Nation, Dissent, The New York Times and The Washington Post. She is a contributing editor to Africa is a Country and teaches in the arts and culture program at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism.

Hengzhi Huang Yang

Hengzhi Huang Yang is a senior at Harvard College. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of House House Magazine.

Brandy Jensen

Brandy Jensen is the culture editor at Defector. Previously, she worked at a number of publications that no longer exist. She lives in New Orleans with her two dogs.

Charlotte Klein

Charlotte Klein is a features writer at New York Magazine, where she chronicles the media in both a regular column and deeply-reported features. She's drawn to stories about the business, cultural status, and internal power dynamics of the industry. Previously, she was a media reporter at Vanity Fair.

Elan Kruger

Elan Kruger is a Founding Editor of The New Critic, along with Tessa Augsberger and Rufus Knuppel. He is from Michigan.

Celeste Marcus

Celeste Marcus is the executive editor of Liberties Journal and the author of Chaim Soutine: Genius, Obsession, and a Dramatic Life in Art. She co-hosts the podcast Protective Presence USA, which focuses on settler terrorism against Palestinians in the West Bank and the activism that attempts to stem it.

Fergus McIntosh

Fergus McIntosh is Head Research Editor at The New Yorker, where he leads the fact checking department. Since starting at the magazine in 2015, he has worked across the full range of the magazine's output, from investigations to illustrations, hard news to fiction. He writes occasionally about politics, music, and the nature of truth.

Thomas Meaney

Thomas Meaney is the editor of Granta.

Megan O'Rourke

Meghan O'Rourke is the author, most recently, of the New York Times bestseller The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness, a finalist for the National Book Award in Nonfiction. Her other books include the best-selling memoir The Long Goodbye and three poetry collections: Sun in Days, named a Top Ten Poetry Book of the Year by the New York Times; Once; and Halflife, a finalist for Britain's Forward Prize for Best First Collection. She has also edited two anthologies, The Story of the Body: Poems of Illness & Recovery and A World Out of Reach: Dispatches from Lockdown, and served as an editor at The New Yorker and as poetry editor at The Paris Review. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Radcliffe Fellowship from Harvard University, a Whiting Nonfiction Award, a Front Page Award for Cultural Criticism, and two Pushcart Prizes, among other honors. Her essays and poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times, and Best American Poetry. She is a professor of creative writing at Yale University and the editor of The Yale Review, which under her leadership has received two National Magazine Awards.

Niela Orr

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Rebecca Panovka

Rebecca Panovka is a founder and editor of The Drift. Her debut novel, Archival Research, is forthcoming from Norton.

Alana Pockros

Alana Pockros is the associate editor at The Nation and a contributing editor at Cleveland Review of Books. Her essays and criticism have appeared in those publications along with The New York Times Magazine, The Paris Review, The Point, The Baffler, and elsewhere. 

Alexander Provan

Alexander Provan is the editor of Triple Canopy and a contributing editor at Bidoun. He also writes about culture and technology. He is the recipient of a Creative Capital Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant and a fellowship at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics. He lives in New York City.

Adam Ross

Adam Ross's debut novel, Mr. Peanut, a 2010 New York Times Notable Book, was also named one of the best books of the year by The New Yorker, The New Republic, and The Economist. His current novel, Playworld, a New York Times and Washington Post Notable Book, was named one of the best books of the year by People magazine and Town & Country. It won the 2025 Christopher Isherwood Prize and was a finalist for the 2025 Gotham Book Prize. He is the editor of The Sewanee Review. 

Sam Rutter

Samuel Rutter’s work has appeared in Harper's Magazine, The Paris Review, The New York Times, Dirt, and other publications. Previously an editor at Astra Magazine and The Los Angeles Review of Books, he is the editor-in-chief of Kismet.

Elena Saavedra Buckley

Elena Saavedra Buckley is a story editor at The New York Times Magazine. Previously she was a senior editor at Harper's Magazine and held multiple roles at The Drift. Her writers have won or been finalists for the National Magazine Award, the Overseas Press Club Award, and the Livingston Award, and her own writing has appeared in Harper's, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and other publications.

Clare Sestanovich

Clare Sestanovich is fiction writer and the editorial director at The Yale Review. She is the author of the debut novel, Ask Me Again, and the story collection, Objects of Desire, which was a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize. Her fiction has appeared in publications such as The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and Harper’s.

Genevieve Smith

Genevieve Smith is the executive editor of New York Magazine, where she has edited ASME and Polk award-winning features and special issues for fourteen years, including “Revolt of the Delivery Workers,” “Torn Up and Apart,” “One Block in Brooklyn,” “The Stolen Kids of Sarah Lawrence,” “Tinder Hearted,” and many, many others. She now oversees print and digital features across New York Magazine's brands. She's hosted a limited-run newsletter on the art of writing and written feature stories on topics as far ranging as Lego design and life coaching. She previously worked at Condé Nast Portfolio and Harper's Magazine.

Kyle Tibbs Jones

Kyle Tibbs Jones is Co-Founder and Editor of The Bitter Southerner, an independent, award-winning, multi-platform media company devoted to a better America and a better world. She leads the brand’s editorial voice, shaping work at the intersection of culture and civic life. Kyle edits The Bitter Southerner magazine, hosts Batch, the company’s podcast, and is the author of the children’s book Your Heart Is Your Home. With a background spanning television, public relations, and creative direction, she brings a humane and culturally attuned perspective to conversations about storytelling, media, women’s issues, and the future of democracy. The Bitter Southerner has received nine James Beard Media Awards, recognition on the PEN America Long List, inclusion on Smithsonian Magazine’s 2025 Best Photography Books list and this year, The Bitter Southerner magazine was awarded the publishing industry's "Oscar", The National Magazine Award for General Excellence: Literature, Science and Politics.

Daniel Zalewski

Daniel Zalewski is an executive editor at The New Yorker. He edits the work of many of the magazine’s staff writers, including Jane Mayer, Patrick Radden Keefe, David Grann, Emily Nussbaum, Anand Gopal, and Lawrence Wright. Previously, he was an editor at The New York Times Magazine and Lingua Franca. For The New Yorker, he has contributed profiles of such figures as Ian McEwan, Guillermo del Toro, and Werner Herzog, and has also written features about subjects ranging from amnesia to art restoration.

Dennis Zhou

Dennis Zhou is the Senior Editor at The Paris Review and a writer based in New York. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, and other publications.

Hélène Werner

Born and raised in Montana, Hélène Werner was a musician before she was a journalist. She received her doctorate from Juilliard in 2018 and performed extensively as a cellist and pianist in Europe and the U.S., including at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, and the Supreme Court. She attended university at Yale and has master’s degrees in cello performance and chamber music from the University of Michigan. From 2019 to 2024, Hélène was a fact-checker at The New Yorker, where she worked on many of the magazine’s most ambitious reported features. In her time there, she also served as the co-deputy head of the fact-checking department. In March 2026, she and Nicolas Niarchos launched Now Voyager, a new print and digital magazine of global reporting, longform storytelling, photography, and art.