The people behind SMITH love creating magazines. We believe everyone has a story, and everyone deserves a place to tell it. SMITH is part of our plan to work with our readers to create a new kind of reader/writer experience, one in which you are part of the story.

Larry Smith, Founder + Editor in Chief
SMITH founding editor Larry Smith [larry-at-smithmag.net] has whirled around the media landscape for the past 15 years. He most recently was the articles editor of Men’s Journal, has been the executive editor of Yahoo! Internet Life, senior editor at ESPN The Magazine, a founding editor of P.O.V., and editor-in-chief of its sister publication, Egg, as well as an editor of Might magazine. While living in San Francisco, he was managing editor of the wire/syndication service AlterNet, and currently serves on the board of its umbrella organization, the Independent Media Institute. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Popular Science, Men’s Health, Salon, Slate, and other places. He has contributed personal essays to the anthologies Maybe Baby and Modern Love.

Tim Barkow, Co-founder, Creative Director/Designer
Tim Barkow is the founder of SMITH sister pub, HelloIndie, a magazine of independent design, arts, and crafts. Previously, he was part of the launch team at design lifestyle magazine, One, where he helped develop strategies for editorial, online, and ecommerce initiatives. He co-founded Skoodles Internet, an online service for kids in 1998 (now passed on). Previously, he was an editor at Wired magazine and technology editor at Wired News. His writing has appeared in Business 2.0, ESPN The Magazine, and Inc., among others.

Rachel Fershleiser, Senior Editor
Rachel Fershleiser edits SMITH’s Memoirville section, the PopuLIST, and is the co-editor of SMITH’s forthcoming book of six-word memoirs (HarperCollins 2008). She’s worked in theatre and book publishing and is now a freelance writer and Housing Works Bookstore staffer.

Kathy Ritchie, Associate Editor
Kathy Ritchie is obsessed with many of SMITH’s Obsessions, especially weird jobs and the culture work, while also keeping her eye on our photo essays. Often told she looks like Angelina Jolie, she seems to have a knack for colliding into the famous and infamous.

Rebecca Paoletti, Editor/Online Director
Rebecca Paoletti has more than 15 years of experience as a leading thinker, strategist, and content provider in magazines and the online world. She is currently creative director at Maven Networks. Previously, she was president of strategy and programming at Gotham Broadband. She served as senior director of programming and editor-in-chief of content for Roadrunner, one of the founding editors of @Home, a part of Turner Broadcasting�s online launch team, as well as editor-in-chief of SOMA, the West Coast arts and cultural magazine.

Robert Priest, Creative Consultant
Robert Priest has been as an award-winning designer and creative director of some of the world’s preeminent magazines for the past two decades. He has served as Esquire’s art director twice, design director of House & Garden, creative director of GQ, design director of US Weekly, and design director of Newsweek. He recently served as the creative director on the launch of O At Home and created four special issues for InStyle magazine. He is the founder of Priest Media, based in New York. He also worked on a low key launch of a magazine called Portfolio, from an up-and-coming company called Condé Nast.

Jose Fernandez, Design Consultant
Jose G. Fernandez, who is the art director of the elegant More magazine, has served as deputy art director of Yahoo! Internet Life, as well as a designer for Men’s Health, TV Guide, Entertainment Weekly, National Geographic Adventure, and Cigar Aficionado.

Contributing Editors
Riza Cruz, John House, Jim Gladstone, Rachel Kramer Bussel (Memoirville), Alex Koppelman, Anthony Lappé, Jeff Newelt (comics), Meaghan O’Neill, Katherine Sharpe, Michael Slenske, Brad Wieners

Copy Chief: Jeff Cranmer
Copy Associate: Kira Peikoff
PR consultation: Dave Cirilli, DDC Strategies
DreamSMITH: Rosally Sapla
Branding Artiste: Arin Fishkin, o2 Design Collective
Interns: Miles VanMeter, Elizabeth Minkel

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