The people behind SMITH love creating a storytelling community. 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. He has spoken on the future of media, and power of personal storytelling, in schools across America, to foundations and nonprofits, and at companies such as ESPN and Google. To contact him for speaking engagements, email: news AT smithmag DOT net.

Tim Barkow, Co-founder, Creative Director
Tim Barkow is also a co-founder of the sustainability-focused community Compete to Conserve. Previously, he was Online General Manager at Sagacity Media, and was part of the launch team at design-lifestyle magazine One, where he helped develop strategies for editorial, online, and ecommerce initiatives. In 1998, 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 is the co-editor of SMITH’s New York Times bestselling anthology Not Quite What I Was Planning and three forthcoming books of Six-Word Memoirs. She has written for The Village Voice, New York Press, Print, Los Angeles Times, National Post, Fray Quarterly, Salon.com, and several amazing print and online publications you’ve never heard of. She day jobs happily at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe.

Jeff Newelt, Comics Editor
Newelt is a social media/PR consultant for Paul Pope, Doug Rushkoff, DJ Spooky, The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, Rick Veitch, Larry Marder, David Lloyd, Bryan Talbot, NBM Publishing, Easy Star Records, comics editor for HEEB Magazine, Minister of Hype for the webcomix collective ACT-I-VATE, and reknown mashup maker about town. JahFurry also regularly performs freestyle dancehall reggae dittinanigans with various NYC dub, jazz, klezmer, and blues ensembles.

Lisa Qiu, Assistant Editor
Q is a freelance journalist and writer, a triple major in Journalism, Metropolitan Studies, and American Studies at NYU, and a columnist for AmericanMadness.com. Currently she’s working on a book about the great depression of 2020. Dolphins will drown elite hobos who pool their money together to live on the beach in Australia. Here’s an excerpt: “The bottlenose mafia: echo-locating hoes, mercilessly drowning our foes.”

Rebecca Paoletti, Contributing Editor
Rebecca Paoletti has more than 15 years of experience as a leading thinker, strategist, and content provider in magazines and the online world. Currently, she spends as days planning Yahoo’s video strategy. Previously, she was the creative director at Maven Networks, president of strategy and programming at Gotham Broadband, 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,Elizabeth Minkel (Memoirville), Meaghan O’Neill, Katherine Sharpe, Michael Slenske, Chris Teja

Copy Chief: Jeff Cranmer
PR consultation: Dave Cirilli, DDC Strategies
DreamSMITH: Rosally Sapla
Design Gem: Arin Fishkin, o2 Design Collective
Interns: Kristina Lucarelli, Alyx Marine (SMITHTeens)

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