Serge Bloch (Cover; “Big Brain Theories”) is an illustrator based in France.

Noel Chilton ’96 (“The Tall and Short of It”) is a writer and artist in Oaxaca, Mexico.

Alex Crumb ’07 (“Break a Leg”) was an English major at Middlebury.

Michael R. Gordon (“The Road to Hawr Rajab”) is the chief military correspondent for the New York Times and the coauthor of Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq.

Bob Gulla ’83 (“At Hell’s Gate”) is a music journalist, who writes from his home in Rhode Island. His last piece for Middlebury Magazine was “Dispatch is Dead! Long Live Dispatch!” for the fall 2006 issue.

Michael Katz (“Incident on De Ribas Street”) is the C.V. Starr Professor of Russian and East European Studies at Middlebury.

Benjamin Lowy (“The Road to Hawr Rajab”) is an award-winning photojournalist, who has covered stories in Afghanistan, Darfur, Haiti, Indonesia, Libya, and Iraq.

Tad Merrick (“Searching for Nicholas Garza ’11”) is a photographer in Middlebury.

Chris Milliman (“Dry Goods”) is a photographer in Hanover, New Hampshire.

Mark Naydorf (“Incident on De Ribas Street”) is a professor at Odessa National Polytechnic University and newspaper columnist in Odessa, Ukraine.

A.J. Neste (“At Hell’s Gate”) is a photographer based in San Clemente, California.

Jay Parini (“Faculty Shelf") is a poet, novelist, biographer, and the D.E. Axinn Professor of English and Creative Writing at Middlebury.

Carmen Segovia (“The Incident on De Ribas Street”) is an award-winning illustrator in Barcelona.

Sarah Tuff ’95 (“Dry Goods”) is a writer in Burlington, Vermont, and a frequent contributor to Middlebury Magazine.