Highbrow Magazine assistant managing editor Zach Napolitano is regarded as one of the last true custodians of the English language. That is mainly because he financed his degrees from Fordham University and Brooklyn College through janitorial work. In addition to fixing, and occasionally making, pages for Highbrow Magazine, he’s contributed to Long Island Pulse Magazine and has been awarded for his writing in media research by the New York State Communication Association. Zach currently resides in Babylon, New York. 

Loren DiBlasi is a freelance writer/blogger based in New York City. She graduated from Marymount Manhattan College as a double major in English and Art History. Loren loves music, film, art, fashion, and all aspects of pop culture, which she writes about frequently. Her articles for Highbrow Magazine have included coverage of Golden Globe-nominated films; a look at the Oscars; and a political essay about how the 2012 presidential candidates utilize social media in their campaigns. 

Mark Bizzell is a recovering Texan who for the past 20 years has called California home and paradise.  After working in PR for many years, he is now doing penance by exposing truth to power and having a bit of fun writing about culture also.  Living in the City of Angeles, he is enrolled in the writer’s program at UCLA and volunteers at the Taproot Foundation. He has written entertainment and news features for Highbrow Magazine, including articles about the Supreme Court's healthcare ruling; remembering the glory days of American television; and an an interview with author Rosencrans Baldwin among others. 

Elizabeth Pyjov  was a Romance Languages and Literatures major and Classics minor at Harvard University, where she was an Arts editor for the Harvard Crimson and had a foreign film column. Her senior thesis was about meta-cinema in the auteur film. In the past she has worked for Italian television at RAI International in Rome, the United Nations in Geneva, and for Porto dei Poeti, an international poetry festival in Cesenatico, Italy. Elizabeth is fluent in five languages and has worked or studied in six different countries. She is currently working as a translator of Italian poetry and  writes about the Arts for Highbrow Magazine.

Benjamin Wright is a contributing writer for Highbrow Magazine. He is also a researcher, author, and educator. He has published book chapters, reports, and articles on a wide range of topics, including television, culture, ideology, immigration policy activism, program evaluations, and music. Some of his articles for the magazine have included an essay on the comeback of vinyl records, the Woody Guthrie Centennial, and an interview with Paris Review Editor, Lorin Stein.

Eugene Durante is a contributing writer at Highbrow Magazine. He is a Police Officer and former Welfare Fraud Investigator. Born in Brooklyn, Durante is a fourth-generation resident of Coney Island. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree and Master’s Degree in Criminal Justice. He is an avid poker player and frequently writes about topics related to New York. 

The band A Hero A Fake meet their demise at the hands of a supermodel armed with scissors, tree branches, and a wooden plank. There’s a lot of blood — little is left to the imagination. You can’t say they didn’t warn you. There’s a message scrolled at the beginning of the music video for their new single, “Dead and Done,” that’s read aloud by the ominous voice of the narrator: “Tonight’s presentation,” we’re told in capital letters, “contains depictions of human horror and the atrocities commited [sic] during the violent massacre of A Hero A Fake one evening in June...."

Mike Mariani, a contributing writer at Highbrow Magazine,  was raised in Connecticut and now lives in Hoboken, New Jersey. While working on his Master’s in English at Fordham University, he wrote features and reviews for Premiere. His writing career expanded eclectically from there: He has written about politics, culture, international affairs, and film for The Faster Times, Cinema Blend, and L Magazine spinoff Listicles. He currently has a weekly Game of Thrones column for The Faster Times. He teaches at Mercy  College in New York. 

Sam Chapin hails from Vermont but resides in Brooklyn, NY, and spends much of his free time playing with his dog and writing. He is currently co-orchestrating a musical that he wrote and is working at an off-Broadway theater in the Village. He is getting married next year and is very excited.

Carol Berens, an architect and writer, whose work concentrates on design and urban change, lives in New York. She wrote Hotel Bars and Lobbies (McGraw-Hill, 1996) and most recently, Redeveloping Industrial Sites (John Wiley, 2010), as well as articles for design and general interest magazines. She was also the associate editor for The Paris Times, a now sadly defunct English-language monthly newspaper in Paris. Although no longer practicing as an architect, she can never get away from the world of building and sees the world through architect’s eyes, always on the lookout for great design, a new detail, and the little things that make cities great.