The Editors
ROSS BARKAN
Founder & Editor-IN-CHIEF
Ross Barkan’s newest novel, Glass Century, was published in 2025. He is a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine, a columnist for New York Magazine, and he writes the Substack newsletter Political Currents.
LOU BAHET
Founder & EXECUTIVE Editor
Lou Bahet is at work on a memoir about family, homecomings, and object histories, set in a New York apartment building. She is a three-time Fellow of The Writers’ Institute and a recent Literary Fellow-in-Residence at the Bogliasco Center.
DAVID ROBERTS
Founder & Senior Advisor
David Roberts had a forty-year career on Wall Street and now writes the Substack newsletter Sparks from Culture where he writes personal essays focused on wealth, class, and capitalism.
DJANGO ELLENHORN
FICTION EDITOR
Django Ellenhorn is a Fellow at The Writers’ Institute and a graduate of the University of Florida’s fiction MFA program, where he worked with Uwem Akpan, Camille Bordas, Jill Ciment, and David Leavitt. He is at work on a novel.
VANESSA OGLE
POETRY EDITOR
Vanessa Ogle is a poet, writer, and educator. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, The Nation, Business Insider, Literary Hub, Cordite Poetry Review, and elsewhere. She received her MFA from Hunter College and lives in New York.
JASON CHATFIELD
CARTOON EDITOR
Jason Chatfield is an Australian cartoonist, author, and comedian. His work has been exhibited internationally and published by The New Yorker, MAD, Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, and HarperCollins. His Substack, New York Cartoons, was a Featured Publication in 2023 and 2024.