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Editors
Editor-in-chief
Nicholas JacksonEditor-in-chief, Pacific Standard. IALJS officer. IMSA & Northwestern/Medill alum. Prev. Outside, the Atlantic, Atlas Obscura, Slate, Encyclopaedia Britannica.
deputy editor
Ryan JacobsDeputy editor @PacificStand. Writing a book about the truffle underworld for Clarkson Potter. Alum: @TheAtlantic, @MotherJones. Tracking crime, intrigue, WTF.
associate editor
Katie Kilkennyassociate editor @PacificStand | writing about movies & editing the Culture Pages | find my stuff @TheAtlantic, @Slate, @Indiewire, @LAReviewofBooks, @broadly
senior editor
Ted ScheinmanSenior editor @PacificStand. Former future academic. Short book coming soon. (@fsgbooks) escheinman@psmag.com
associate editor
Kate WheelingAssociate editor @PacificStand. Reasonably articulate, according to my dad.
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Writers
Thomas Page McBee
Thomas Page McBee is the author of Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness, and Becoming a Man (City Lights). Find him at thomaspagemcbee.com
creative director
Taylor LeCreative Director at Pacific Standard. Previously at Time, Rodale, TEN, and your mama's house.
staff writer
Francie DiepScience journalist, staff writer @PacificStand, appreciator of prose in all forms
contributing writer
Dwyer GunnJournalist. Contributing writer @PacificStand. Words for @nytimes @Slate @NYMag. @Freakonomics alum. Email: dwyer.gunn@gmail.com
contributing writer
Jimmy TobiasContributor at @PacificStand. Freelance reporter covering extinction, extraction and enviro justice. Former trail worker. Which way to the woods? @ucbsoj
contributing writer
Mike WhiteAsst Prof of Genetics at Washington University in St. Louis, science writer at http://www.psmag.com, co-publican at the science pub http://thefinchandpea.com
contributing writer
Rick PaulasWrites a bunch. VICE, The Awl, KCET, Pacific Standard, others. Bay Area White Sox fan. I'd like to sell this: http://bit.ly/1zUfDul rickpaulas at gmail
contributing writer
Alissa WilkinsonI’m a critic and culture journalist in New York. All my clips are at alissawilkinson.com.
Allison Shapiro
a fighter, not a lover. @medillschool. @pacificstand. ask me about broadway musicals.
Katie Heaney
author of NEVER HAVE I EVER (out now) & DEAR EMMA (a novel, out 2016), writer @buzzfeed, 1daf. katie.heaney@buzzfeed.com
John Upton
Journalist covering climate change for @ClimateCentral — with a focus on coastlines. Blogging about ecology at @WildlifeWonk.
Avital Andrews
I’m an editor (@sierra_magazine), a writer (@pacificstand, @latimes, @smartertravel, etc.), an Army wife, and a little girl’s mother.
Matt Novak
Writes for @Gizmodo, married to the lovely @SamN0VAK, PGP Key: http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/matt-novaks-public-pgp-key-1685218691
contributing writer
James McWilliamsWriter. Runner. Reader. Plant eater. Coffee snob. Impending recovering academic.
contributing writer
Melissa Gira GrantAuthor of Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work. Columnist for Pacific Standard. More in The Nation, The New York Times, The Guardian, BuzzFeed News, & Vice.
Susie Cagle
Reporting, writing, drawing, politics, policy, California, jokes, complaints, etc. http://susie-c.tumblr.com/about
