April's Employees of the Month

JEN DAVIS

Jen Davis is a New York–based photographer who for the past 12 years has been working on a series of self-portraits dealing with issues regarding beauty, sexuality, identity, and body image. She recently turned her lens onto other people, has begun to explore men as a subject, and is interested in investigating the idea of the relationship—both physical and psychological—with her camera. Her first monograph, Eleven Years, was published last spring by Kehrer Verlag and was accompanied by a solo show in New York City at ClampArt. A month ago, she went to a bodybuilding competition in Ohio, and we're pleased to publish the photos from her trip.

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ARMANDO VEVE

Armando Veve is an artist working in Philadelphia. After studying illustration and fine arts at the Rhode Island School of Design, he began pursuing editorial illustration work in conjunction with his studio projects. Since then, his delicate, goofy, and often surreal drawings have found their ways into numerous publications, including the New York Times Sunday Review. A drawing he did for the New Republic was included in the Society of Illustrators' most recent Book and Editorial annual exhibition, a survey of the best illustrations of 2014. We previously commissioned him to illustrate an excerpt from Akhil Sharma's novel Family Life.

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JONATHAN GALASSI

Jonathan Galassi was born in Seattle, grew up in Massachusetts, and has spent most of his adult life in New York. A lifelong veteran of publishing, he has worked at Houghton Mifflin, Random House, and, since 1986, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, where he is president and publisher. Galassi's first novel, Muse, will be published by Knopf in June. He has also served as poetry editor of the Paris Review and has published three books of poems, most recently Left-handed (Knopf, 2012), as well as translations of the Italian poets Eugenio Montale and Giacomo Leopardi. His translation of Primo Levi's collected poetry will be published by Liveright this fall.

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WYATT WILLIAMS

Wyatt Williams lives and writes in Atlanta. His features, essays, and short stories have been published by the Paris Review, Eater, the Literary Review, the Collagist, and other publications. His writing has been awarded by the Association of Alternative Newsmedia and anthologized in Best Alternative Longform Journalism. He previously served as the culture editor of Creative Loafing and the deputy food editor of Atlanta magazine, but now keeps his office at an urban goat farm. When he was younger, he rode a bicycle from Florida to California. He is at work on a novel about a country singer and a nonfiction book about meat.

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EDITH ZIMMERMAN

Edith Zimmerman is the founding editor of the women's site the Hairpin. She has written for the New York Times Magazine, GQ, and Elle. She is probably best known for the blog post "Women Laughing Alone with Salad" and for a drunken profile of Chris Evans, written when he was about to become Captain America. ("But whatever," she says. "Hi Chris! Haha.") She listens to ASMR videos almost every night—always by Maria, a.k.a. "GentleWhispering," and almost always her "Crinkle Shirt" video. This has been a surprise, but it is so good, she says, though it sometimes feels lonely. This issue marks the first installment of a monthly column about enriching her life.

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JENNIFER SCHAFFER

Jennifer Schaffer didn't win the Rhodes Scholarship, so she became the weekend editor of VICE.com instead. (It's a better gig anyway.) A classic corn-fed Midwesterner, Jennifer was born in Chicago to a Filipina American and an Ashkenazi Jew. Before moving to New York this past January, she taught in Tibet, shattered her right ankle in Latvia, and worked at BuzzFeed in LA. Jennifer is a recent graduate of a school in Palo Alto, California, where she studied English and coined the term "start-up eyebrows." She is currently writing the Great Silicon Valley Novel—on a PC. Someday, she hopes to adopt a Rottweiler.

Illustrations by Geffen Refaeli