We like to think that Katie heads up the department that produces the satisfying vim and charm-dusted vigor at this operation. She thinks in prose and bon mots, and her love of words translates from the scholarly world to the real one quite naturally; in an age wherein each of us is inundated with narratives, Katie holds an appreciation for uncommon and intentional choices amid the chaos. You’ll find no empty words here.

Ryan’s interests run the cultural gamut, and he’s uniquely fond of works from Rick Owens and Jacques Derrida to Ricardo Bofill and Virginia Woolf. His passions are varied, but there’s a method to this madness: Ryan revels in works that take care in craft and composition.

An editor to her core, Amy finds disproportionate joy in finding typos in everything from published novels to billboards and texts, but she also relishes in the daft humor of an intentional misspell and basks in the glory of a well-timed pun. Paronomasia and wordplay aside, she prides herself on knowing all the ins, outs, and grammatical intricacies of the Thunderdome that is the English language. If you’ve a comma out of place or a mismatched verb tense, she’ll find it before you can look up “paronomasia”.