2 THE NEWYORKER, DECEMBER 2, 2019
CONTRIBUTORS
Amanda Petrusich (“Ecstasy and Ruin,”
p. 34) is a staff writer and the author
of “Do Not Sell at Any Price.”
Gahan Wilson (Cartoon, p. 18), who
died in November, contributed to The
New Yorker for more than forty years.
His many books include “Gahan Wil-
son’s Out There,” a collection of car-
toons, which came out in 2016.
Jennifer Gonnerman (“The Interview,”
p. 42) became a staff writer in 2015.
She is the author of “Life on the Out-
side: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine
Bartlett.”
Brian Barth (“The Defector,” p. 26) is a
journalist based in Toronto. His work
has appeared in the Washington Post
and National Geographic, among other
publications.
Roddy Doyle (Fiction, p. 54) will pub-
lish a new novel, “Love,” in June, 2020.
Sophie Cabot Black (Poem, p. 38) has
written three collections of poetry, in-
cluding “The Exchange.”
David Sedaris (“Hurricane Season,” p. 20)
has contributed to The New Yorker since
- His most recent book, “Calypso,”
came out last year.
Betsy Morais (The Talk of the Town,
p. 18), who was previously on the mag-
azine’s editorial staff, is the managing
editor of Columbia Journalism Review.
Fabián Severo (Poem, p. 56) is an Uru-
guayan poet. His collection “Night in
the North,” translated from the Por-
tuñol by Laura Cesarco Eglin and
Jesse Lee Kercheval, will be published
in the spring.
Hannah Goldfield (Tables for Two, p. 13),
the magazine’s food critic, began con-
tributing to The New Yorker in 2010.
Kadir Nelson (Cover), an artist, has
received Caldecott Honors and the
Sibert Medal. He also illustrated “The
Undefeated,” by Kwame Alexander.
Hilton Als (Books, p. 66) won the 2017
Pulitzer Prize for criticism. He is a pro-
fessor of writing at Columbia.
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