Chris Colin is a writer and editor, and is currently senior producer for the podcast Longer Tables with José Andrés. (He makes the music for the show, too. Mentioning that b/c he loves doing that and you should hire him to do that.)
As a journalist he’s written about problematic billionaires, Japan's rent-a-friend industry, Obama's Irish roots, long-term worry, endangered noodles, chimp filmmakers, George Bush’s pool boy, blind visual artists, solitary confinement, Burger King bathroom lawsuits, creepy river access wars, insurgent Barbadian road tennis, a gay chorus’s tour of the Deep South and more for the NewYorker.com, the New York Times Magazine, Pop-Up Magazine, Wired, Saveur, the Atavist, Outside, California Sunday and Mother Jones. His work is featured in Best American Science & Nature Writing, and has won the Society of Professional Journalists Award for Features & Long-form Storytelling, and two Lowell Thomas awards. He's a contributing writer for Afar, and one day will update the articles page on this damn site.
His latest book, Off, has pictures! Lovely funny ones by Rinee Shah and you should absolutely give it to people as a gift. Dave Eggers says, "For humanity to stay sane, this must be read like the Bible.”
He's also the author of What to Talk About, with Rob Baedeker, as well as What Really Happened to the Class of '93 and Blindsight, named one of Amazon's Best Books of 2011. In 2015 he co-wrote This Is Camino, which was nominated for a James Beard Award.
During 2020 and 2021 he published Six Feet of Separation, a free pandemic publication by and for kids — “a virtual newspaper for our troubled times,” Dan Rather called it. Here’s an article about it. The paper’s editorial policy is Yes.