Dan Baum is the author of “Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans,” “Smoke and Mirrors: The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure,” and “Citizen Coors: An American Dynasty.”

Born in New Jersey, Baum has been a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine, where he covered the military, the tsunami in Southeast Asia, and the Hurricane Katrina disaster in New Orleans. He’s been a reporter for the Anchorage Times, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Asian Wall Street Journal, and The Wall Street Journal. Since 1987, he has worked as a freelance journalist along with his wife, Margaret L. Knox; first in Africa, and later in Montana, Mexico, California, and Colorado. All their work is collaborative; together they have written for Smithsonian, Mother Jones, The New York Times Magazine, Wired, and other publications.

Baum and Knox live Boulder, Colorado, with their sixteen-year-old daughter, Rosa.

Greg Campbell is an award-winning journalist and author who has written for such publications as The Economist, WSJ Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, the San Francisco Chronicle, In These Times and Amnesty Magazine, among others. He is the author of two nonfiction books, The Road to Kosovo and Blood Diamonds. The latter served as inspiration for the Oscar-nominated 2006 film Blood Diamond starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Connelly.

Greg’s third nonfiction book, Flawless; Inside the Largest Diamond Heist in History, will be published Feb. 2, 2010 by Union Square Press.

Greg has won more than two dozen journalism awards from the Inland Press Association, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Colorado Press Association, Colorado Associated Press Reporters and Editors, and the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies.

He lives in Fort Collins, Colo., with his wife and son.

More of Greg's writing can be found here. Click here for more information about Flawless.

Richard Cole has worked as a journalist for 35 years, writing and appearing in media ranging from local weeklies to the Internet and national television. He spent 18 years with The Associated Press, winning the news agency's highest award for his coverage of the Unabomber case.

Richard covered Iran-Contra, Colombian drug cartels and the indictment and trial of Manuel Noriega, but has also written about science, health and environment. His national story on the dangers of acetaminophen led Johnson & Johnson to re-label children’s Tylenol. He served as a regular panelist for CNN’s Larry King Live show during the Scott Peterson trial.

Richard now lives on the Trinity River in Northern California.

Michael de Yoanna is a freelance journalist whose articles have appeared in Salon, The Washington Times, 5280, Forest, the now-defunct Rocky Mountain News and many other newspapers, magazines and online news sites. He has contributed to the CBS "Evening News" and has been quoted and/or featured on NPR, Colorado Public Radio and several television programs and print publications.

Michael began freelancing in late 2007, after working as a newspaper reporter for seven years on military, public health and environment, politics, crime, and religion beats. He was among the first to report on the emerging crisis of post-traumatic stress facing combat veterans returning from war; provided serial coverage of the deadly West Nile virus outbreak in 2004 from its epicenter in Colorado; exposed deaths and a lack of safety oversight and accountability in the construction industry; and used secret and classified documents to report that the move of the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, from its iconic Cheyenne Mountain complex in Colorado Springs was risky.

Michael lives in Colorado. He holds 12 professional awards for news features and investigations.

He has been a speaker at many forums, including the 2009 Investigative Reporters and Editors conference.

He created dscriber as an online magazine where professional and upcoming writers, photographers, artists, and filmmakers who cover topical issues join forces rather than blog alone, increasing their viewers. Contributors share in the site's profits. Michael, who acts as dscriber's chief editor and co-publisher, specializes in online media development and search engine optimization.

Chad DiPrince has more than nine years of web design, commercial print and computer programming experience. He has worked for several newspapers, including The Denver Post and Denver Catholic Register.

While at the Colorado Daily in Boulder, Chad oversaw every aspect of the paper's production, its computer network and a skilled staff. He was also responsible for the website and for the online presence of sister publications, such as the Women's Magazine.

He possesses an extensive knowledge of the latest web programming languages and technologies, as well as a demonstrated ability to manage a budget and to work under tight deadlines. While with another Denver firm, he managed the design and development of over 30 websites in two years. In 2009, Chad launched his own company, Hive Media. He holds a BA in history from Colorado State University and earned All-American honors in track and field along the way.

Chad is also a fine arts painter whose work occasionally appears in local galleries.

Gavin Ehringer is an award-winning freelance writer/photographer. His work has appeared in national and international large-market publications including People Weekly, Cowboys & Indians, International Living and Encyclopedia Britannica.

He was a regular winter-sports columnist for the Rocky Mountain News, with wide distribution of his columns on the Internet. He is a three-time winner of the American Quarter Horse Association Steeldust award for outstanding editorial content in large-market publications. For 15 years, he covered the sport of rodeo as a columnist for Western Horseman, the world's leading equestrian publication.

Gavin is the author of six non-fiction books and is working on his seventh, to be titled "Coming to the Fire: The Unnatural History of Dogs, Cats, Horses and Cows". He lives in Gig Harbor, Washington, and Mexico.

Amy Green is a Florida journalist specializing in faith, the environment and social issues. Her work has appeared in PEOPLE, Newsweek, The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor and many other publications.

Amy relishes a variety of freelance work. She has reported on beleaguered Florida mom Casey Anthony, the Everglades, Medicaid and Nicole Kidman's romance with Keith Urban. She has appeared as a commentator on CNN Headline News. Her next project is "After the Boom," a column for dscriber for 20- and 30-somethings.

Amy is an active member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors, and she is the freelance committee chairwoman for the Society of Professional Journalists. She is a Florida native and graduate of the University of Florida. She lives and works in Orlando with her husband Wade and yellow Lab Griffin. Visit Amy at www.amybgreen.com.

Chris Hondros (b. March 14, 1970) is an American Pulitzer Prize-nominated phtotojournalist. Born in New York City to immigrant Greek and German parents, both survivors of World War II, he moved to North Carolina as a child. After studying English literature at North Carolina State and taking his Master's degree at Ohio's School of Visual Communications, Hondros returned to New York to concentrate on international reporting.

Hondros has covered most of the world's major conflicts since the late 1990s, including wars in Kosovo, Angola, Sierra Leone, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Kashmir, the West Bank, Iraq, and Liberia. His work has appeared on the covers of magazines such as Newsweek and The Economist, and on the front pages of most major American newspapers, including The New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times.

Hondros has received dozens of awards, including multiple honors from World Press Photo in Amsterdam, the International Pictures of the Year Competition, the Visa Pour L'Image in France, and the John Faber award from the Overseas Press Club. In 2004 Hondros was a Nominated Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Spot News Photography for his work in Liberia, and in 2006 he won the Robert Capa Gold Medal, war photography's highest honor, for his work in Iraq. He's also been named a 2007 "Hero of Photography" by American Photo magazine, and was a 2008 National Magazine Award finalist.

In addition to his photography, Hondros is a frequent lecturer and essayist on issues of war, and regularly writes for the Virginia Quarterly Review, Editor and Publisher, The Digital Journalist, and other publications. Hondros and his work are frequently chronicled in the general press, including profiles by Smithsonian magazine, CNN, National Public Radio, The New York Times, and Newsweek. He lives in New York, where he is a senior staff photographer for Getty Images, the international photo agency.

'Sancho' is a British journalist who has been living in Spain for nearly 20 years. He writes regularly on Spanish national, regional and local news as well as on Gibraltar as 'Sancho' and under his real-life name, David Eade. His special interests are security, organised crime, domestic violence, politics and the environment.

He has also scripted numerous productions for radio including “If It’s In The Press, It’s Got To Be True” (which was performed live for four years at the Global Cafe in London), 80 episodes of “Our Kith and Ken” — an every day story of Costa folk in Spain — “Lift Up The Rock”, “Come on You Blues” plus a series of short stories broadcast on SABC in South Africa.

He is also a playwright.

Zack Kopp is a freelance writer who blends social and political themes with raw, wild soul from the bottom of the can. He leads MightyMercury.com, the experimental partner site to dscriber that hosts short fiction, verse, art, photography and commentary.

He currently reviews books and conducts interviews of authors for The Examiner in Denver and has long served as the editor of an irregular journal of quantum thought called The Gut, where he has hosted numerous counter-clockwise icons in a "mad dash for anti-fame."

Kopp, who holds a masters of fine arts in writing from Vermont College, is slated to serve as managing editor of dscriber's yet-to-be-named sister site, a collection of fiction, poetry, art and commentary.

Brian Reyes is a journalist based in Gibraltar, a small British territory at the southernmost tip of Spain. He writes for the Gibraltar Chronicle, the territory's main daily newspaper, covering the courts and police beat, politics and, on occasion, the village fete. Recent highlights include covering the suspension of Gibraltar's most senior judge and being arrested by the Guardia Civil while writing about US treasure hunters.

Brian has also worked for over 10 years as a correspondent for the London-based maritime newspaper Lloyd's List, the world's leading source of shipping news. His most recent work for the paper has focused on Somali piracy and included an investigation into the mechanics of how shipowners pay ransoms.

Brian has also written for Reuters and print publications in the UK including The Times, The Sunday Times and BBC Wildlife Magazine, as well as numerous trade magazines.

He writes a weekly column for the Spanish regional newspaper El Faro and blogs at My Mediterranean Diet.

After years on stage as an entertainer, Brad Weismann specializes in arts and entertainment coverage, and humor, for dscriber. He’s written on everything from grand opera to classic film to midget wrestling for magazines, newspapers and Web sites in America, England and Australia. A cross-section of his work can be found at bradweismann.blogspot.com.

Brad has won awards for his work from the Society for Professional Journalists and the Colorado Press Association. He is proud to be associated in multiple capacities with the Boulder International Film Festival. He lives in Boulder, Colorado, but he counts himself the king of infinite space.