CONTRIBUTORS
T.COLE RACHEL is a poet,
LIBBY FLORES was born in Texas and
essayist, critic, and native
moved to Los Angeles ten years ago
Oklahoman, now making Brooklyn
because she thought it sounded like a
his home. His books include
good idea. Always wanting to be a writer,
Surviving the Moment of Impact
she became a stylist to make a living.
and Bend Don’t Shatter. T. Cole is
Until one day she hung up her last blouse
a contributing editor at The Fader
and followed her true desire. For this
and he is a frequent contributor to
issue, Libby sat down with writer/director
V and VMan magazines and is the
Neil LaBute for breakfast in Los Angeles
recipient of the T. Marsh Reese Prize
to discuss his upcoming film, Lakeview
from the Academy of American
Terrace, as well as his new plays debuting
Poets. For this issue of Slash he
in New York. Currently Libby is working
took some time to write about the
on a collection of short fiction titled
unfamilar in ‘How do you price
Styrofoam Heart and is an Emerging
your art?’
Voices Fellow through PEN USA.
For me, NICHOLAS MATUS, at the moment it
is 6:03 PM on February 10th, 2008. I set myself
one goal for today: write my biography. Allow me
to specify: write a biography that in some way
captures my personality. Instead, I went for a bike
ride, played Pétanque and saw a dead rat on the
street. It is now 6:13 PM on February 10th, 2008.
I am no closer to reaching my goal. This will have
to do. For this issue, Nicolas Matus wrote
‘Simultaneously,’ a seemingly impossible story in
which you’re to read the parallel columns at the
same time. It’s not promised to work, but it’s
certainly worth trying. Nicholas Matus was born in
London, England and raised in Basel, Switzerland,
etc. and he wishes he was born in November.
ANA BENAROYA is currently a senior Illustration major at the Maryland BENJAMIN FRIEDMAN is a
Institute College of Art in Baltimore, but remains a proud New Jerseyan at Professor of Economics at Harvard
heart. Over the years she has made concert posters for The Ottobar, The 8 x University, formerly the Department’s
10, The Stone Pony, and has worked for ABC World News Tonight and DC chairman. His latest book is The Moral
Comics. She has a passion for screenprinting, hot sauce, and turkey sandwiches! Consequences of Economic Growth,
For ‘Collective,’ Ana brough the Spring/Summer ’08 collections to life through published in 2005 and his previous book,
illustration. Her depictions of society can be seen in the scenes of pool relaxtion, Day of Reckoning: The Consequences of
extravagent dining, and tearoom gathering. American Economic Policy Under Reagan
and After, received the George S. Eccles
Prize, awarded annually by Columbia
University for excellence in writing about
economics. In between Friedman’s
services as a director and member of the
editorial board of the Encyclopaedia
Britannica, a director of the Private
Export Funding Corporation, a trustee of
the Standish Mellon Investment Trust, a
director of the National Council on
Economic Education, and an adviser to
the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, he
wrote The Economic Playground for this
season’s issue.
CHRISTOPHER STURMAN was born in the United Kingdom where he
studied photography at the Kent Institute of Art & Design and Bournemouth
& Poole College of Art & Design. Christopher has gone on to develop a very
diverse career with editorial and advertising work for clients including W
Magazine, Vogue, Self Service, Art + Auction, Bottega Veneta, Jil Sander, and
Kate Spade. For this issue, Christopher photographed nine people in Chelsea,
New York for ‘Come As You Are.’ Christopher recently produced a series of
design portraits for Wallpaper, including one of Reed Kram & Clemens
Weisshaar in Munich. He currently resides between New York and London.
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