Jim Adams lives in a small apartment in New York City. He collects cruiser bicycles. Send him one. Really.
Michael Agger is an aspiring book editor. He lives in Brooklyn.
Suzy Banks has been twirling tools and fixing up houses for more years than she cares to admit — and she's got the scars to prove it.
Rachel Barenblat is an MFA student at the Bennington Writing Seminars. Her first book of poetry, the skies here, was published by Pecan Grove Press (San Antonio) in 1995. Her poems, stories, and essays have appeared in various places, online and off, and she enjoys singing madrigals and baking bread.
Sarah Blustain lives in Manhattan and is a contributing editor for the Forward and an Associate Editor at Lilith magazine.
Michelle Chihara is a staff writer and Web editor at the New Haven Advocate, a Connecticut alternative weekly newspaper (the free kind you pick up on the corner). Her homepage is "in progress" much like her life, her apartment, and her collection of French rap.
Wendy Cholbi is a financial writer and editor who lives in Boston with her husband, a philosopher. She has written extensively on personal finance (many of her articles can be found on the Tripod Web site) and is a producer of The Blue Moon Review, an online literary magazine (http://www.thebluemoon.com)
Andrea Coller is a writer and editor living and working in New York City.
Marni Davis is a graduate student at the New School for Social Research in New York City. She has contributed to the New York Press, BUST, and Tripod's Women's Zone.
Liza Featherstone is a freelance writer and editor. She has contributed to numerous on-line and print magazines, including Nerve, Salon, Ms., Columbia Journalism Review, and the Nation. She lives in Brooklyn.
Adam Fifield is a writer living in New York City. He is currently working on a memoir about his relationship with his Cambodian foster brother, to be published by Avon Books in 1999.
Thomas Frank is editor-in-chief of The Baffler magazine, and author of The Conquest of Cool (University of Chicago Press, 1997).
John Fried is a freelance writer in New York City. He's written articles for a number of magazines, including Worth, Time, and Cineaste. When he's not writing about retirement, he's denying that he'll ever grow old.
Josh Glenn is the former editorial director of Tripod's Web site, a contributing editor to Great Britain's fabulous Idler magazine, and the publisher of his own zine Hermenaut: The Digest of Heady Philosophy.
Matt Goldberg tries to squeeze in as much writing as possible in between everything else. He lives in Brooklyn and actually has a backyard.
Harry Goldstein is a writer living in Brooklyn. He divides his time between writing fiction and anything else to make money. He wrote a column for Tripod focusing on workplace politics, and is currently a science journalist writing about everything from genetics research to microelectronics engineering.
Adam Heimlich is a New York—based freelance writer who contributes to New York Press, Miami New Times, and The Stranger.
Al Hoff is the author of ThriftScore, a book celebrating the joys of too much thrifting. She lives in Pittsburgh, with lots of junk.
David Hudson is the author of Rewired, a "brief and opinionated" history of the Internet and its culture, as well as editor of the ongoing Rewired webzine. He has written for Salon, Spiegel Online, Netly News, LA Weekly, and the San Francisco Bay Guardian, and has hosted conferences for Electric Minds and Netscape's Professional Community.
Yvonne Jones is a writer and filmmaker based in Philadelphia. The ongoing battle between her curious mind and a need to pay the bills on a regular basis has led her down many an intriguing road.
Michael Kaplan is a journalist based in New York City. He's written on a wide range of topics for magazines that include Smart Money, Los Angeles, Movieline, and New York.
Ben Klipstein is a Tripod contributor who has written for Time Out New York, Blender and nynow.com. He's also in a band called The Team. Ben is a resident of Brooklyn.
David Kushner is a contributing editor for Spin. He has written for publications including the New York Times, the Village Voice, Entertainment Weekly, and Details.
Ken Kurson is the founder and editor of Green magazine, a personal finance zine for those nauseated by the phrase "personal finance." He is a columnist for Esquire and his first book, The Green Magazine Guide to Personal Finance, was published earlier this year.
Kathleen McGowan is a New York—based writer.
Emily Nussbaum is a writer living in New York City. She is a contributing editor at Lingua Franca magazine.
Our carpenter, J. P. Partland, is also an ordained minister and a doctor of divinity. When he's neither damning his errors nor blessing his creations, he writing about cycling, culture, and objects, and trying to prove that comedy is pretty.
Alissa Quart is a freelance writer based in New York City.
J Betty Ray is a Minneapolis writer who revels in the incestuous relationship between media and itself. She is also the editor/producer of Fucker Dot Com (http://www.fucker.com), an online monument to the archetypal Fucker Within.
Ted Rall is a syndicated cartoonist and columnist for Universal Press Syndicate. Winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, his most recent books include Revenge of the Latchkey Kids (Workman) and My War with Brian (NBM), both released this year. Rall lives in New York City.
Dan Reines is an editor for Tripod and a freelance writer. His writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the San Diego's North County Times, the Orange County Register, and ChinMusic, the nation's premiere digest of baseball and bigrockaction.
Eva Rosenberg, MBA, EA, writes a national tax column, is a frequent talk show guest as the Original GiftSurfer (http://www.mywishlist.com/giftsurfer/ ) and the Tax Bytes columnist at http://www.tripod.com, in addition to her tax practice in Encino, California.
Chip Rowe is the Playboy Advisor. A self-diagnosed anal-inventive personality, he once compiled a subject index to the Weekly World News and a 660-entry guide to This is Spinal Tap. Last year he compiled an anthology of great zine writing, The Book of Zines: Readings from the Fringe (Owl Books). His E-zine of pop culture and fun, The Chip Electric, is located at http://thetransom.com/chip.
Formerly Tripod's "Chatmaster General" and Poderator of the Critters Pod, Christina Simmons has returned to civilian life as a freelance writer and a teacher of sixth grade Language Arts in Connecticut. Her publishing credits include features in Catholic Teen Magazine and the Berkshire—based Animal Life newspaper.
Sasha Smith lives and eats well in New York City.
Candi Strecker is a freelance writer living in San Francisco. In her spare time she publishes the zines It's a Wonderful Lifestyle and Sidney Suppey's Quarterly & Confused Pet Monthly.
Steve Taormina lives and works the organic life in Boulder, Colorado.
Emma Taylor is the editor of Tripod's Women's Zone (www.tripod.com/women). She learned the art of interning at a political consulting company in Oxford, where she made coffee, fixed the photocopier, and used the office fax machine to maintain a long distance love affair.
Bruce Tulgan is a sought-after speaker and consultant. He is the author of Work This Way (Hyperion, 1998) as well as Managing Generation X (Merritt, 1995), and is the founder of RainmakerThinking, Inc. in New Haven, which is dedicated to studying the working lives of Americans born after 1963.
Paul Tullis is a freelance journalist in San Francisco. From 1994—1997 he was an editor at Might magazine. He has written for The New Yorker, New York, Columbia Journalism Review, Vibe, NPR, and the LA Weekly.
Tom Vanderbilt is contributing editor of The Baffler and a columnist for Mother Jones, and has contributed to many publications, including the Nation, the London Review of Books, and Spin. He is the author of The Sneaker Book: Anatomy of an Industry and an Icon (the New Press, 1998).
Randy Williams is an editor and writer who has supervised the Media, Web/Tech, and Work/Money Zones for Tripod'sWeb site. Williams's essays, stories, and poems have appeared in numerous publications, and he is the author of two plays. Despite rumors to the contrary, he is not related to crooner Andy Williams; he has, however, been known to belt out a spirited rendition of "Moon River" after downing a few Black & Tans.
Jessica Willis handles money and people. She breathes in New York City.
Ethan Zuckerman lives and works in the Berkshire mountains of Massachusetts with his wife. He works as Tripod's VP of Research and Development, and writes about the impact of technology on society.
