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Maggie Mertens is the author of <i>Better Faster Farther: How Running Changed Everything We Know About Women</i>. She's been writing about gender, sports, culture, and many other things as an independent magazine journalist for more than a decade.

Rahawa Haile is an Eritrean American writer from Miami. Her work covers culture, borders, and the outdoors. In Open Country, her hybrid memoir about the Appalachian Trail and the politics of free movement in the US, is forthcoming from Little, Brown.

Latria Graham is a magazine feature writer from Spartanburg, South Carolina. Her forthcoming book, “Uneven Ground: A Memoir of a Family, a Land, and a Culture in Peril,” will be published by HarperCollins in 2027.