Rookie

Amber Humphrey is freelance burrito-eater, entertainment writer and ’90s pop culture devotee from the Bay Area. A prolific doodler, Amber spends her evenings drawing intense crayon portraits of Bill Pullman. She blogs about the olden days at nostomanic.blogspot.com.

Amy Rose Spiegel is a writer and student living in Brooklyn. Her main interests are the Replacements, Super Mario, and Roland Barthes. You can reach her on Twitter @amyrosary.

Anaheed Alani edits stories for Rookie from a dark hole in NYC.

Anna Fitzpatrick is a Toronto-based writer/candy-store employee.  Her contributions have appeared in WORN Fashion Journal (for which she is the web editor), the Hairpin and Shameless Magazine. One time, she sat next to John Stamos on a plane, and he told her she was pretty.

Arabelle Sicardi has an extensive dead-butterfly collection, likes to sleep in her closet in a pile of clothes, and has an obsession with reorganizing her makeup collection by height of product. She writes Fashion Pirate and runs a makeup Tumblr called powder doom.

Beth Hoeckel is a collage and mixed-media artist living in Baltimore. She has a massive collection of vintage magazines and old books, and likes taking pictures with crappy point-and-shoot cameras that she collects from thrift stores.

Chrissie White is a visual enthusiast who has spent the last 18 years of her life in one Seattle neighborhood. Eventually she hopes to have her own travel show and every Led Zeppelin album on vinyl. You can view more of her work at her website or see how her day is going on her Twitter.

Cindy Gallop is the founder and CEO of www.IfWeRanTheWorld.com, a web-meets-world platform that turns good intentions into action one microaction at a time, and of www.makelovenotporn.com. She will be launching makelovenotporn.tv in early 2012.

Cynthia Merhej is an illustrator who likes to depict stories about the real and the imaginary. She lives back and forth between London and Beirut, and is currently attending the Royal College of Art. Feel free to email her about collaborations, commissions or existentialist queries at cynthiamerhej@gmail.com.

Danielle Henderson is a dedicated feminist, freelance writer, and graduate student based in Madison, WI. Her first book, Tales From Fish Camp, was published in 2004, and she writes Feminist Ryan Gosling when she should be doing homework or grading papers. You can find out more about her here.

Dylan Tupper Rupert is a Bay Area design student, by way of Seattle. Maker-baker-thinker-feeler-puppy chaser. In love with the real world.

Eleanor Hardwick was born in Oxfordshire, England. She and her photography have been featured in Harper’s Bazaar, British Vogue, Dazed & Confused and the Independent in London, among other places. When she’s not taking pictures, she enjoys making films, painting and going to music festivals.

Elizabeth Spiridakis is the art director of Bon Appetit and does the White Lightning blog. She hasn’t worn pants since 2001 and trims her own bangs.

Emily Condon has clerked at a video store and a comic book shop and run a single-screen repertory movie theater and runs the office at This American Life. She likes to make the trains run on time and infrequently shares her obsession with early 20th century baseball here.

Emily V. Gordon is an L.A.-based writer, live-comedy booker, and podcaster. You can find her talking about video games on the podcast The Indoor Kids, writing about relationships for HuffPo and xoJane, or otherwise on her laptop.

Emma Dajska is a 19-year-old graphic design student in Poland with a tendency to cut all papers in her vicinity into tiny pieces.

Emma Straub is the author of a short-story collection, Other People We Married, and the forthcoming novel Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures. Her earliest crushes were River Phoenix, Joey McIntyre and Andrew McCarthy, and her most recent crushes are her husband, her cats and cheese.

Erica Segovia is a beautiful 21-year-old photographer from San Antonio, Texas.

Hannah Johnson is the associate beauty editor of xoJane and runs the style blog An Aesthetic Feast. She loves writing, acting, beauty, film, fashion, creating things, cooking & eating, history and art & design.

Hattie Stewart is an illustrator and artist based in London. She shows her work in Berlin and London and has worked with many zines, websites (including Urban Outfitters), magazines (e.g., Another Magazine), and fashion brands (including House of Holland).

Hazel Cills is a 17-year-old girl living in New Jersey. In her spare time she likes to watch gory horror movies, blog for Bonjour Girl and Urban Outfitters, and put funny hats on her pug, Nigel. Her aura is plaid and her soul is made of glitter.

Jamia Wilson is a feminist media activist, organizer, and storyteller. A proud member of Generation Catalano, Jamia loves cartwheels, waxing nostalgic about Judy Blume and Denise Huxtable, and talking about reproductive justice. Connect with her at www.jamiawilson.com or follow her on Twitter.

Jamie Keiles (KAY-liss) doesn’t like to sit next to the air conditioner at a restaurant. She enjoys asking couples how they met, going to the supermarket and drinking from very cold water fountains. She is currently pursuing a BA in sociology from the University of Chicago.

Jane Pratt is Rookie’s fairy godmother.

Jenny Zhang is a poet, writer and performer living in New York. She’s also lived in Shanghai, San Francisco, the mountains of Transylvania, Iowa City, Avignon and Paris. You can find her at www.jennybagel.com and at her blog, Fashion for Writers.

Joe Coscarelli is a 23-year-old boy living in Brooklyn. His writing has been in various publications, including New York, the Village Voice, Rolling Stone and the Los Angeles Times. He has a Tumblr and a Twitter.

Julie Whitaker enjoyed her teenage years as a nerd in the marching band. Now she lives in NYC, does web stuff for Doctors Without Borders, goes to church and watches a lot of television. She likes to say hello to everybody in her neighborhood. She has a Twitter.

Katherine Denney lives in Tennessee, where she spends most of her time reading, writing, playing her flute and being a senior in high school. When she’s not doing one of these things, she’s probably busy doing something a lot cooler, like teching a play.

Kelly Abeln lives in Minneapolis, where she draws, illustrates, and works in graphic design. When not making things she enjoys playing video games and getting attacked by her cat, Pebbles. You can view her work here.

Krista Burton writes the award-winning blog Effing Dykes and lives in Chicago. When she’s not writing, she travels for her job, tries not to stare openly at cute girls, and spends inordinate amounts of time in drugstore makeup aisles.

Laia Garcia grew up on a tropical island obsessing over magazines, fashion, and music. She’s still obsessed with all those things, except now she lives in Brooklyn with two black cats!—although only one belongs to her. She writes and styles and sings in a band.

Lauren Poor studies photography in NYC and is passionate about trying to solve social problems, visionary environments/outsider artists, and the ecstatic truth.

Lauren Redding is Rookie’s managing editor. She calls Brooklyn home and loves reading books, fawning over dogs she meets, and eating french fries. She is dedicated to mastering the art of frying the perfect egg. After almost a year, she is a novice at best.

Leanna Wright was the girl in high school with pink hair who didn’t talk much, but filled every margin with doodles and punk lyrics. Her cat was her best friend, and she preferred tea to partying. Not much has changed since. She lives in San Francisco, and you can see her art at leannawright.tumblr.com.

Leeann Duggan recently moved from a city that always sleeps to New York City, where models ride the subway and bagels are delivered right to your door. When not wondering what took her so long, she writes about fashion, feminism, feelings and all manner of frippery at Born in Flames.

Lesley Arfin is the author of Dear Diary, occasional Internet rantings, magazine columns and TV shows (recently Girls, premiering on HBO in spring 2012). She is a Pisces with Virgo rising and moon in Cancer. When she was in high school she was super popular and every single person liked her.

Lori Adelman is a Brooklyn-based writer, blogger and advocate. She is currently working on the “Every Woman Every Child” campaign at the United Nations Foundation and is a regular contributor at Feministing.com and TheGrio.com.

Maggie Thrash is a YA writer leading a double life in North Carolina. You can visit her at lonercomics.com.

María Inés Gul, aka Marjainez, draws pictures for fashion editorials and has shelves full of books for children in her bedroom. She runs MARJAINEZ.

Marie Lodi was raised on a steady diet of Dynasty, comic books, singing while cooking, Coast to Coast AM and the National Enquirer. She loves the whimsical and the weird, the fanciful and the filthy, the ridiculous and the romantic. You’re totally invited to her nonstop blog party at agentlover.com.

Marlena Pope is an 18-year-old sewing enthusiast from Wisconsin. You can find more of her awesome D.I.Y projects and Care Bear-inspired outfits over at her blog, Self-Constructed Freak.

Minna Gilligan is a 20-year-old artist, writer and blogger based in Melbourne, Australia. Contact her via her blog or email minnagilligan@hotmail.com.

Naomi Christina is a 17-year-old British girl with a thirst for knowledge and culture, and a romantic obsession with Bruce Springsteen and Brontë novels.

Olivia Bee lives in Portland, Oregon, and photographs everything around her—friends, family, strangers, places, events and, above all, memories. The visual diary she keeps has attracted clients like Nike, Converse, Fiat and TeenNick.

Petra Collins is an 18-year-old photographer from Toronto. You can see more of her work at her website  and The Ardorous.

Pixie Casey lives in the mountains with her lovely husband, their enormous dog and an endless supply of Atomic Fireballs. She has a Twitter and a Tumblr, and someday she’ll get around to using them.

Rachael Prokop is 23 years old and lives in the DC area, where she spends her free time visiting museums and getting lost in tunnels. When not lost, she writes a scary-story blog, Voices from the Abyss, and posts on Twitter.

Rivkah Gevinson loves food, but somehow always ends up eating the same thing every day. She likes to make things, especially videos, and sings in a band called the Dogs.

Ruby Aitken is a graphic designer who lives in Melbourne, Australia. She is a film fanatic and has an unhealthy obsession with color. You can see more of her work here.

Ruby Book is 14, likes to play bass and ukulele, has an intersex dog, and enjoys Thai food. She has a phobia of butterflies and a blog called The Ruby Lotus.

Sady Doyle started Tiger Beatdown so she could talk about lady issues online. She is still talking about them now.

Shelby Fero likes some things but dislikes others. She has three siblings, two dogs and an inferiority complex. Feel free to email her things you like at sfero@live.com.

Sonja Ahlers was born in 1971 in Victoria, British Columbia. She is the author-illustrator of three books—most recently The Selves. Her visual art and installation work has been exhibited internationally. Her website is at www.sonjaahlers.com.

Spencer Tweedy is a teenage musician and Tavi Gevinson’s personal Nesquik dealer. He dabbles in public angst on his weblog.

Stephanie Kuehnert got her start writing bad poetry about unrequited love and razor blades in eighth grade. In high school, she moved on to punk rock and feminist zines. She’s published two young adult novels, I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone and Ballads of Suburbia, and is at work on another.

Tara Violet Niami studies photography at Pratt Institute. She is a bicoastal romantic who speaks like a prim British grandmother and is often described as being “from another planet.” You can look at her photos here.

Tavi Gevinson is the editor-in-chief and founder of this site. She is 16 and lives under your bed, so she can eavesdrop on teenage girls and then report back to Rookie’s advertisers and the Walt Disney Corporation with her findings.

Vincent Jessel is an 18-year-old boy living in New York City. He is a student pilot and has had a passion for flying since he was very young. He is also somewhat of a jazz pianist and enjoys any and every type of music.