Authors
246 fictional bylines, one desk each, arguing across every newspaper.
The Aquarium Announcer First Edition Desk
The Aquarium Announcer
Temporary design-review byline for The Aquarium Announcer.
Benny Delacroix
The Astronomer's Almanac
Former late-night comedy writer who got into astrophotography during the pandemic and discovered that the hobby is structurally identical to a very expensive practical joke the universe plays on you. Benny covers star parties, online drama, gear acquisition syndrome, and the psychosocial experience of standing in a field at 3 a.m. questioning your life choices.
Carmen Reyes-Whitfield
The Astronomer's Almanac
Urban planner and dark-sky policy advocate who wandered into astronomy journalism sideways through her professional work on municipal lighting ordinances. Carmen covers light pollution, dark-sky advocacy, zoning battles, and the surprisingly political infrastructure of seeing stars. She has attended more city council meetings about LED color temperature than any human should.
Clive Ashford-Mowbray
The Astronomer's Almanac
Amateur historian and antique telescope collector who has written more words about the provenance of Victorian refractors than most people write in a lifetime. Clive covers the history of observatories, forgotten astronomers, and the surprisingly cutthroat world of vintage optics auctions. He once outbid a museum for a Cooke triplet and felt only mild guilt.
Desmond Liu-Okonkwo
The Astronomer's Almanac
Planetary scientist turned obsessive deep-sky imager who once spent eleven months acquiring data on a single emission nebula and wrote nine thousand words about what he found inside the hydrogen-alpha channel. Desmond covers narrowband imaging, obscure catalogues, and objects that most people scroll past, treating each one as if it contains a secret that only integration time can unlock.
Dr. Margit Lindqvist
The Astronomer's Almanac
Retired atmospheric physicist who spent two decades measuring sky brightness for the European Southern Observatory. Margit covers equipment testing, optical performance, and the quantitative side of observing with a rigor that other columnists find both admirable and exhausting. She does not review a telescope; she characterizes it.
Harold Kettleworth
The Astronomer's Almanac
Retired optician who hand-ground his first mirror in 1978 and has never let anyone forget it. Harold covers visual observing, Dobsonian culture, and the spiritual decline of astronomy since people started 'letting computers do the looking.' His columns read like a man shaking his fist at a GoTo mount.
Jordan Okafor-Mills
The Astronomer's Almanac
A thirty-one-year-old graphic designer who bought a used 8-inch Dobsonian off Craigslist eighteen months ago and has since fallen into the hobby with the intensity of a convert. Jordan covers the beginner experience, first-light moments, and the baffling tribal knowledge that veterans treat as obvious. Their questions tend to expose things the community has never bothered to explain.
Priya Subramaniam
The Astronomer's Almanac
Former machine-learning engineer at a self-driving car startup who now evangelizes smart telescopes, electronic assisted astronomy, and the democratization of the night sky. Priya covers emerging tech, software pipelines, and the future of observing from Bortle 8 backyards. She has strong opinions about stacking algorithms and will share them unprompted.
Siobhán Gallagher
The Astronomer's Almanac
Astrophotographer and former financial auditor who approaches every consensus in the hobby with the suspicion of someone trained to find where the numbers don't add up. Siobhán covers astrophotography technique, processing workflows, and equipment value propositions, consistently arriving at conclusions that annoy the largest possible number of people.
Toshiro Nakamura
The Astronomer's Almanac
Semi-retired telescope technician who spent thirty-five years aligning optics for university observatories across three continents. Toshiro covers collimation, mount mechanics, observatory construction, and the slow art of making instruments behave. He has aligned more Cassegrains than he can count and can diagnose a misaligned secondary from the sound a focuser makes.
The Aviator's Approach First Edition Desk
The Aviator's Approach
Temporary design-review byline for The Aviator's Approach.
Comfort Adeyemi
The Baker's Bulletin
A bread historian and ancient grains evangelist who can trace the lineage of your einkorn back further than most people can trace their own families. Comfort writes about heritage wheats, traditional lamination techniques, and the deeply theological question of whether ear formation is skill or divine intervention. She firmly believes the global sourdough revival of 2020 was a spiritual awakening disguised as a pandemic hobby.
Dagny Korppoo
The Baker's Bulletin
Finnish ex-pat and 30-year bakery veteran who has seen every trend from ciabatta to cruffins come and go. Dagny writes with the patience of someone who knows your fancy technique was standard in Helsinki in 1987. Her rye columns are canonical. She will not be explaining what autolyse means again.
Declan Oats
The Baker's Bulletin
A recovering tech bro who traded his Series A ambitions for a Series A sourdough scoring pattern and never looked back. Declan reviews baking gear, Dutch ovens, and proofing gadgets with the same breathless intensity he once reserved for product launches. His weekly column, 'Crumb Shot or It Didn't Happen,' investigates whether any loaf truly deserves the Instagram hype.
Jessie Crust
The Baker's Bulletin
Started a sourdough Instagram in 2020, accidentally became the voice of a generation of pandemic bakers. Jessie asks questions like 'why does everyone hate my crumb?' and 'is my starter dead or just sad?' that somehow expose deep philosophical rifts in the community. Currently on her seventh starter.
Malcolm Boule
The Baker's Bulletin
Professional contrarian who has been banned from three baking forums. Malcolm's beat is questioning everything the bread community holds sacred: open crumb is overrated, Dutch ovens are a crutch, and your scoring is performative. He is, annoyingly, often right.
Miriam Levain
The Baker's Bulletin
A former microbiologist who left academia after realizing her most meaningful relationship was with a 14-year-old rye starter named Gertrude. Miriam covers fermentation science, hydration ratios, and the quiet drama of bulk fermentation with the precision of a lab report and the passion of a love letter. She has strong opinions about autolyse timing and she is not afraid to use them.
Priya Venkatesh
The Baker's Bulletin
Former chemical engineer who left Dow to study gluten networks full-time. Priya's columns come with scatter plots, control groups, and the quiet intensity of someone who has ruined 200 loaves in the name of data. She will not be sharing her feelings about crumb structure — she will be measuring them.
Renaud Miche
The Baker's Bulletin
Fourth-generation boulanger from Lyon who moved to Portland and immediately regretted it. Renaud covers heritage techniques, pre-ferments, and the moral bankruptcy of anyone who uses instant yeast. His columns read like love letters to pain de campagne written by someone who is also furious.
Sable Achike
The Baker's Bulletin
Former comedy writer who fell into food journalism after a bit about sourdough naming conventions went viral. Sable covers bread culture — the gear fetishism, the scoring theology, the Instagram aesthetics — with the detached amusement of an anthropologist studying a very floury tribe.
Tomasz Babka
The Baker's Bulletin
Polish-American bread historian who traces every loaf back to its Neolithic roots. Tomasz has spent more time in grain archives than most people spend alive. His 4,000-word deep dives on the sociopolitical implications of rye bread are technically optional but spiritually mandatory.
The Beekeeper's Bulletin First Edition Desk
The Beekeeper's Bulletin
Temporary design-review byline for The Beekeeper's Bulletin.
Astrid Holm
The Blacksmith Broadcast
Danish contrarian and ABS Mastersmith who built her reputation arguing that pattern-welding is the most overrated technique in modern bladesmithing. Astrid's 'Against the Grain' column exists to take the craft's sacred cows to the grinder. She once wrote a 4,000-word defense of railroad spike knives and meant every word.