Harrison Blackman is a writer and editor based in Los Angeles. Known as “a shamus of a tiger sort” at Princeton, he cut his teeth as a cub reporter in Taos, New Mexico and elevated his craft with an MFA in fiction at the University of Nevada, Reno and a Fulbright in the divided nation of Cyprus. With experience from the newsroom to the writers’ room, his work often follows noir-stained journalists out of their depth in international intrigue across the Eastern Mediterranean, or wayward architects struggling to build the world of tomorrow—whatever comes first.

Edward Mendez is a PhD Candidate in Film and Media Studies at the University of California Irvine and co-film editor at the Brooklyn Rail. 

Laura Valenza is co-film editor at the Brooklyn Rail. Her writing has appeared in the Rail, Literary Hub, Los Angeles Review of Books, Gulf Coast Journal, and elsewhere. She has spoken about film at events hosted by TEDx, McNally-Jackson, and The Picture House theatre. She is co-host of a new podcast, The Silver Nitrate Witches' Movie Review Brew, launching in April 2025.