| March/April 2005

Garret Keizer (“Left, Right, and Wrong”) is a freelance writer who lives in northeastern Vermont. His most recent book is Help: The Original Human Dilemma, an exploration of the paradoxes of human assistance. His essay about the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal, “A Picture Worth Exactly One Thousand Words,” was featured on MotherJones.com last year, and his writing has also appeared in Christian Century, Harper’s Magazine, and the Village Voice.

Steve Simon (“Left, Right, and Wrong”), formerly a photographer for Canadian newspapers, is now based in New York City. He is a member of the Toronto photographers’ collective PhotoSensitive, which uses photography to illuminate issues of social justice. His latest book is Empty Sky: The Pilgrimage to Ground Zero.

James B. Twitchell (“Jesus Christ’s Superflock”) teaches English and advertising at the University of Florida. The most recent of his several books about consumption and marketing is Branded Nation.

Emily Bazelon (“From Bagram to Abu Ghraib” and “Searching for Khalid”), a senior editor at Slate.com, traveled to Jordan as a Soros Justice Media Fellow to report on the treatment of prisoners captured in Afghanistan.

Sara Corbett (“The Asthma Trap”) is a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine and the mother of two children. She has a particular interest in stories about environmental health and has also written extensively on women’s sports, including a book about the 1996 U.S. women’s Olympic basketball team, Venus to the Hoop.

Danny Wilcox Frazier (“The Asthma Trap”) is a freelance photographer whose project documenting the decline of rural communities in his home state of Iowa received the 2004 Community Awareness Award at the Pictures of the Year International competition. He has also worked on numerous international stories, including last year’s presidential election in Afghanistan..

Daniel Duane (“Sacrificial Ram”) is the author of the memoir Caught Inside: A Surfer’s Year on the California Coast and the forthcoming novel A Mouth Like Yours. His previous story for Mother Jones, “Meadow’s End” (July/August 2004), looked at the work of a scientist who is “cooking” an alpine meadow under heat lamps to examine the effects of global warming.

Michael Scherer (“Make Your Taxes Disappear!”) is Mother Jones’ Washington correspondent. His recent stories for the magazine, “Little Big Companies” (January/February 2005) and “Crossing the Lines” (September/October 2004), have focused on government contracting abuses.