Winter 2025: Featured Contributors
Here are a few of the talented writers and artists who contributed to this issue.
Peter Oumanski (“The Moment Is Us”) is a visual artist and illustrator who studied fine arts in his hometown of St. Petersburg, Russia, before attending the School of Visual Arts in New York City. His award-winning work appears in such publications as The New Yorker and Wired.
Sarah Rufca Nielsen ’05 (“A Life by Design”) majored in history at Rice and currently works as a freelance writer and editor. Nielsen’s work can be found in the Houston Chronicle, Houstonia and CultureMap.
Kim Catley (“Tracing the Ancestors”) is a freelance writer and a contributor to several university publications. She grew up in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains — just south of the story’s Pharsalia Farm — but now calls Richmond, Virginia, home.
Russell Gold (“The Climate Diplomat”)is an award-winning investigative journalist at Texas Monthly. He is the author of two books and a two-time finalist for a Pulitzer Prize. He covered energy for The Wall Street Journal for 20 years.
Zach Phillips (“Tracing the Ancestors”) is a photographer and videographer from Charlottesville, Virginia, who is passionate about helping tell the stories of individuals and organizations striving to make the world a better place.
Dan Bejar (“AI’s Mad Loops”) is a conceptual illustrator living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Bejar has created artwork for clients such as Apple, The New York Times and TIME magazine, among others.