Contributors

Michela Buttignol ("The (Real) Real World," illustration) is a New York– based designer who has done work for The New York Times, The Guardian, Dotdash Meredith, and other publishers and media companies.

Joanne Cavanaugh Simpson ("Mosquito Identity Crisis," p. 20) is a freelance journalist, essayist, and lecturer in the Master of Arts in Science Writing Program at Johns Hopkins University. She is a former staff writer at Johns Hopkins Magazine and the Miami Herald, and her work has appeared in The Washington Post and Scientific American, among other publications.

Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson ("The Sound of Science") is a longtime contributor to Johns Hopkins Magazine. Her new biography, Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free, comes out from Simon & Schuster in June.

Barry Falls ("Wildlife's Legal Champion," illustration) is an award-winning artist and author from Northern Ireland. His love of animals and flora can be found in much of his work, which has appeared in The Lancet medical journal, on book covers, and in several prominent news publications.

Melanie Haiken ("Wildlife's Legal Champion") is an award-winning San Francisco Bay Area writer who has contributed to more than 30 national magazines, including National Geographic, Condé Nast Traveler, Sierra, Real Simple, and Health. 

Dan Page ("Thrown for a Loop," illustration) is an award-winning illustrator whose work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Real Simple, and many more publications. He works from his home studio in Toronto, where he lives with his wife, three daughters, and two dogs.

On the cover

For this issue's cover, illustrator Mark Smith sought to capture the spirit of alum Daniel Taylor, A&S '67 (see "A Mighty Footprint"). "The footprint is meant to introduce the idea that Taylor is tracking a yeti, while also suggesting that he is in fact the embodiment of this mythical beast," Smith says. "It is him, but the unknown, or even unknowable, him." Smith's art has appeared in magazines, newspapers, books, and ad campaigns around the world and has won him recognition by the New York Society of Illustrators, American Illustration, World Illustration Awards, and others.