Contributors

Winter 2024 

Holly Stapleton
(“Kindred Spirits”) is an illustrator and painter based in Toronto, Canada. In both her editorial and commercial work, Stapleton explores the complexities of the human experience through themes of selfhood, relationships and nostalgia. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Elle and The Economist.
 

Julie H. Case
(“The Wine Writer”) writes about wine, food, foraging, travel and health for magazines. She’s also working on a book about foraging, specifically about America’s prized edible mushrooms and the people obsessed with picking them.
 

Steven Boyd Saum
(“Walkabout”) is an award-winning editor and writer of fiction, essays and reviews. His writing has been published in Orion, The Believer and WorldView, and he contributes to many college and university magazines. He is the executive director of strategic communications at Saint Mary’s College of California.
 

Mike McGregor
 (“The Wine Writer”) is a photographer based in Hudson Valley, New York. His work has appeared in Wired, New York magazine and Time. 
 

Israel G. Vargas
(“Walkabout”) is an illustrator based in Mexico City. His work is a constant exploration of the collage technique, both digital and analog. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Texas Monthly and The Atlantic.
 

Mabel Tang ’23
(“Bridges to Hope”) is a former Rice Magazine intern, proud Hanszenite and M.D. candidate at California Northstate University College of Medicine. She finds joy in exploring new coffee shops and bragging about her labradoodle, Summer.