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Katherine Boo has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2003 and a contributor since 2001. Her writing focuses on issues of poverty, opportunity, social and economic policy, and education. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2000 for disclosing wretched neglect and abuse in Washington DC's group homes for the mentally retarded.

Alan Burdick writes for numerous publications including The New York Times Magazine, Harper's, GQ, and Natural History. He has also worked as an editor at The New York Times Magazine, Discover, and The Sciences, and was the editorial producer and senior writer for Science Bulletins, a multimedia science-news division of the American Museum of Natural History.

Ta-Nehisi Coates is a senior editor at The Atlantic, a former staff writer at The Village Voice and TIME and has contributed to The New York Times Magazine and other publications. He lives in New York City. His new book is The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood.

Eliza Griswold, a fellow at the New America Foundation, received a 2010 Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome. Her journalism has appeared in The Atlantic, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and Harper’s, among other publications. She was a 2007 Neiman Fellow at Harvard University.

Andrew Meier is the author of Black Earth: A Journey Through Russia After the Fall and The Lost Spy: An American in Stalin’s Secret Service--both published by W.W. Norton and named Book of the Year by The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and NPR.

Alex Kotlowitz is the author of Never a City So Real, The Other Side of the River and the national bestseller There Are No Children Here which The New York Public Library selected as one of the 150 most important books of the twentieth century.

David Samuels is a Contributing Editor at Harper's and a frequent contributor to The New Yorker. He is known for writing long nonfiction narratives about con-men and fugitives, radicals, rap stars, addicts, thieves and politicians that explore the twinned American traditions of self-invention and self-deceit.