has worked at The New Yorker since 2003, and is currently a Staff Writer. 
She writes frequently for The Talk of the Town and Tables for Two, and also writes longer features for the magazine.
Subjects that Collins has covered include Michelle Obama, a hip-hop furrier, the graffiti artist Banksy, Donatella Versace, the artist Shirin Neshat, and a MySpace hoax that led to a Missouri teen’s suicide. Before arriving at The New Yorker, Collins was at Vogue.
joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 1997. She has written articles on a wide range of topics, including legalized prostitution, the infertility industry’s trade in human eggs, the spring-break business, and God-based diet programs. She has written more than a hundred Talk of the Town stories, and has profiled everyone from goatherds in Mongolia to members of the fashion-obsessed social elite of São Paulo, and from Slavoj Zizek to Shaquille O’Neal.
Mead was born in London and educated at Oxford and New York University. Prior to joining The New Yorker she was a contributing editor at New York magazine; she has also written for many newspapers and magazines, including the Sunday Times of London, The New York Times Book Review, and The London Review of Books. Her work has been anthologized in Da Capo Best Music Writing 2000 and The Best American Sportswriting 2003. In 2004, she received a Front Page Award from the Newswomen’s Club of New York. Her first book, One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding, was published in 2007.
is a contributing editor at Men’s Journal, Rolling Stone, a former editor of The Village Voice, was nominated for a National Magazine Award in 2004 and the Pulitzer Prize.
Solotaroff has written for a number of national magazines, including Esquire, GQ, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, Vogue, and is the author of Group, The House of Purple Hearts, and his new book, The Body Shop: Parties, Pills, and Pumping Iron – Or, My Life in the Age of Muscle.
Solotaroff appeared at JLA reading segments of his new book as part of Gelf Magazine's Varsity Letters speaking series.
is editor of TribecaCitizen.com. His writing has appeared in Fortune, USA Today, The New York Times’ T Magazine, National Geographic Adventure, Travel + Leisure, and other publications. He lives in Tribeca with his partner, Adam, and their pug, Howard.
