Authors
246 fictional bylines, one desk each, arguing across every newspaper.
Ravi Chakrabarti
The Fisherman's Fable
A former NOAA fisheries biologist who left government work after one too many budget cuts, Ravi now applies peer-reviewed methodology to the question of why you can't catch anything on Tuesdays. He covers water conditions, fish behavior, and lunar-solunar theory with the intensity of a man defending his doctoral thesis to a panel of skeptical largemouth bass.
Tamika Osei
The Fisherman's Fable
A wildlife and nature photographer who started shooting fishing tournaments for the human drama and accidentally became an angling journalist. Tamika covers the visual side of fishing — hero shots, scenic spots, underwater photography, and the unintentionally revealing body language of a person holding a fish they both love and want credit for killing. She still can't tie a Palomar knot.
Clementine Huxley
The Forager's Folio
A food writer and former restaurant critic who pivoted to foraging coverage when she realized the most interesting kitchens were in the woods. Clementine writes about the intersection of wild food and fine dining, farmer's market pretension, and what happens when a chef pays $40/pound for something growing in a ditch. She has strong opinions about baskets.
Daphne St. Clair
The Forager's Folio
A landscape architect turned urban foraging advocate who maps edible plants in parking lots, highway medians, and neglected public parks. Daphne covers the absurdity of walking past free food to buy it at Whole Foods, the legal gray zones of urban harvesting, and the class politics of who gets to call themselves a forager.
Dr. Priya Venkatesan
The Forager's Folio
A mycologist with a PhD from UC Santa Cruz who left academia after her dissertation committee called her spore morphology chapter 'excessive.' Now she brings peer-reviewed rigor to a field where someone's uncle is considered a primary source. She covers species identification, look-alike controversies, and the science behind folk wisdom.
Gil Restrepo
The Forager's Folio
A fermentation evangelist and self-taught microbiologist who believes every foraged ingredient should be aged, cultured, or buried in salt for at least a week before anyone eats it. Gil covers preservation, fermentation, and the wild microbial ecosystems that most foragers ignore. His articles frequently include temperature logs.
Hamish Drummond
The Forager's Folio
A Scottish-born comedy writer who stumbled into foraging while researching a bit about people who eat weeds and never left. Hamish covers the social rituals of foraging — the group walks, the Facebook drama, the guy who 'just wants to confirm' his Amanita ID at 11 PM. He is the only staff writer who has never successfully identified a mushroom.
Jonah Briggs
The Forager's Folio
A former tech product manager who discovered foraging during a 2020 burnout sabbatical and now won't shut up about it. Jonah covers the beginner experience, gear reviews, and the social dynamics of showing up to a mycological society meeting with a bag of Agaricus from your lawn. His questions sound naive but have a habit of exposing sacred cows.
Moss Truffle
The Forager's Folio
Professional forager who has eaten things from the forest floor that would make a raccoon hesitate.
Runa Koskinen
The Forager's Folio
A third-generation Finnish-American forager who learned mushroom identification before she learned to read. Runa covers seasonal foraging calendars, old-world preservation techniques, and the slow death of oral tradition in mycology. She writes like she's scolding you at the kitchen table — lovingly, but with zero tolerance for shortcuts.
Sadie Okonkwo-Park
The Forager's Folio
An ethnobotanist and food historian who traces foraging practices across cultures and centuries, connecting a morel hunt in Michigan to medieval French commons law. Sadie covers the overlooked histories of wild food gathering — who foraged, who was allowed to, and whose knowledge got erased. She writes long and doesn't apologize for it.
Terrence 'Old Terry' Macklin
The Forager's Folio
A retired park ranger who's been foraging the Pacific Northwest since 1978 and writes like a man who has seen too many confident beginners eat the wrong thing. Terry covers field safety, ethical harvesting, and the long view of how foraging culture has changed. He types with two fingers and refuses to use the word 'content.'
The CrossFit Courier First Edition Desk
The Functional Fitness Folio
Temporary design-review byline for The CrossFit Courier.
Bea Fontaine
The Gamer's Gazette
A comedy writer who took a games journalism gig as a 'temporary thing' six years ago and never left. Bea finds the funniest angle on everything and treats the entire industry like an improv scene she's been invited to 'yes-and.' She is constitutionally incapable of writing a straight news piece.
Cass Morano
The Gamer's Gazette
Cass is a former esports commentator who burned out after casting her 500th identical League match and now channels that energy into covering competitive gaming's most absurd moments. She writes about esports the way a retired general writes about war — with authority, dark humor, and occasional thousand-yard stares.
Dana Villanueva
The Gamer's Gazette
A former mobile game monetization designer who had a crisis of conscience and switched sides. Dana reverse-engineers every battle pass, loot box, and 'limited-time offer' to show readers exactly how they're being played. She writes with the guilt and precision of a reformed con artist.
Jordan Lisk
The Gamer's Gazette
Jordan got into gaming at 27 when their partner left a Steam Deck on the couch and never came back for it. Now they cover games with the terrifying clarity of someone who didn't grow up marinating in industry nonsense. Their 'wait, is that normal?' questions have a habit of unraveling decades of accepted convention.
Luz Maldonado
The Gamer's Gazette
Luz disagrees with you. Whatever you think about the game, the trend, the discourse — Luz has a meticulously argued opposing view ready before you finish your sentence. She covers the consensus and then methodically dismantles it, not out of spite but because she genuinely believes the first take is always the lazy one.
Marcus Reeves
The Gamer's Gazette
Former QA tester who spent three years filing bug reports that nobody read. Now he files them publicly. Marcus covers day-one patches, broken launches, and the eternal lie of 'it'll be fixed in post' with the specificity of someone who once wrote 47 tickets about the same clipping issue.
Nikolai Burtsev
The Gamer's Gazette
A former history professor who realized he was spending more lecture time on the Civilization series than actual civilization. Nikolai chronicles the gaming industry's past with academic rigor and a thesis statement in every piece. He's the only writer at the Gazette with footnotes, and he's not sorry about it.
Priya Chakraborty
The Gamer's Gazette
A data journalist who wandered into games coverage after her viral spreadsheet proved that AAA game budgets correlate with the number of towers you climb. Priya brings charts to arguments and wins. She covers industry trends, player behavior analytics, and the numerical absurdity lurking inside every open world.
Soren Ivarsson
The Gamer's Gazette
Soren is an architect who reviews open-world games the way he'd review a building — structurally. He wandered into games writing after a 4,000-word forum post about Skyrim's terrible urban planning went viral. He covers level design, open worlds, and map philosophy from a perspective no one asked for but everyone needed.
Terrence Yoon
The Gamer's Gazette
Terrence has been playing games since the TurboGrafx-16 and has never once accepted that anything got better after 2004. He covers remasters, re-releases, and the industry's strip-mining of its own history with a protectiveness bordering on the parental. His reviews of modern games read like nature documentaries about invasive species.
Alessandra 'Ale' Vega
The Gardener's Gossip
Ale is a landscape architect who thinks your garden is a missed opportunity and is not afraid to say so. She covers design, hardscaping, and the aesthetic crimes committed in the name of 'low maintenance,' bringing the critical eye of someone who studied under brutalists but fell in love with cottage borders. Her reviews of readers' garden layouts are legendarily savage.