James K.A. Smith is professor of philosophy at Calvin College and prior to joining Image was editor in chief of Comment magazine for six years. An award-winning author and speaker, his books include On the Road with St. Augustine, Who’s Afraid of Postmodernism?, Imagining the Kingdom, and You Are What You Love. He has written for the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Slate, First Things, Christianity Today, Books & Culture, and The Hedgehog Review.

Mary Kenagy Mitchell began working at Image in 2000 as managing editor.  Her short stories and essays have appeared in Image, Good Letters, The Millions, 3 Quarks Daily, Georgia Review, Beloit Fiction Journal, St Katherine Review, and Bearings Online. She lives in Seattle.

Shane McCrae’s most recent books are The Gilded Auction Block (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018) and In the Language of My Captor (Wesleyan University Press, 2017). He has received a Lannan Literary Award, a Whiting Writer’s Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and a fellowship from the NEA. He teaches at Columbia University and lives in New York City.

Winner of the Flannery O’Connor, Carl Sandburg, and Janet Heidinger Kafka Awards, among others, and emeritus professor of English at Arizona State University, Melissa Pritchard has published ten books of fiction and appeared in journals and magazines including the  Paris Review, Ecotone, A Public Space, Conjunctions, Gettysburg Review, Ploughshares, The Nation,  Wilson Quarterly and O, The Oprah Magazine. She has received three Pushcart Prizes and two O. Henry Awards for her short fiction, as well as an NEA fellowship, Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Award, and other awards and fellowships. As a teacher and journalist, she has traveled to Ethiopia, Ecuador, Afghanistan, Thailand, and India. Her most recent story collection, The Odditorium, most recent novel, Palmerino, and best-selling volume of essays, A Solemn Pleasure, were published by Bellevue Literary Press. With a fifth novel completed, she is at work on a fifth collection of short stories. She now lives in Columbus, Georgia, where she was the 2016 Carson McCullers Fellow.

Nick writes about poetry, religion, film, books, culture, and sports for Rolling Stone, GQ, The Atlantic, Paris Review, Esquire, Literary Hub, Sewanee Review, Commonweal, Kenyon Review, America, and other publications. He is working on a book about faith and doubt in fiction for Fortress Press.

Dr. Aaron Rosen is a curator, critic, and academic who has taught at Columbia, Yale, Oxford, and King’s College London. He is the author and editor of many books, including Art and Religion in the 21^st Century and the children’s book Journey through Art, translated into seven languages.

Lauren F. Winner’s most recent book is The Dangers of Christian Practice: On Wayward Gifts, Characteristic Damage, and Sin (Yale). Her other books include Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis and Wearing God (both from HarperOne). She is associate professor of Christian spirituality at Duke Divinity School.

Gregory Wolfe founded Image in 1989 and edited it for thirty years. He was also the founding director of the Seattle Pacific University MFA program in creative writing. He currently edits a literary imprint, Slant Books, through Wipf & Stock Publishers. Wolfe’s writing has appeared in numerous publications, including the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, First Things, Commonweal, and America. In 2005 he was a judge for the National Book Awards. His books include Beauty Will Save the World, Intruding Upon the Timeless, and The Operation of Grace. www.gregorywolfe.com