Sarah Goodyear Sarah Goodyear writes about cities and the people who live in them, mostly as a contributing writer at The Atlantic Cities and Next City. She also has alt-weekly roots, having served as the editor of the now defunct Casco Bay Weekly in Portland, Maine, for more than four years (she even served as publisher for a stint, too). She has worked at Rolling Stone, Time Out New York, and New York Woman, and her writing has appeared in the Village Voice, Ms., GOOD, and many other outlets. She is also the author of a novel, View from a Burning Bridge, published by Red Hen Press. She lives in her hometown of New York City with her family, and she owns way too many bicycles.

Alexa Schirtzinger recently completed a John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford University, focusing on alternative business models for local journalism, and was previously the editor of the Santa Fe Reporter.