Dash Shaw is a cartoonist and animator whose graphic novel New School was published in 2013 to wide acclaim. His other publications include Doctors (2014), BodyWorld (2010), and Bottomless Belly Button (2008); among his recent animations are Wheel of Fortune (2012), Blind Date 4 (2011), the Sigur Rós video and Sundance Film Festival selection Seraph (cowritten with John Cameron Mitchell, 2012), and the IFC series The Unclothed Man in the 35th Century A.D. (2009). He is currently a Cullman Center Fellow at the New York Public Library.

Cosmin Costinas is the executive director and curator of Para Site, Hong Kong. He previously served as curator at BAK, basis voor actuele kunst in Utrecht, the Netherlands; cocurator (with Ekaterina Degot and David Riff) of the First Ural Industrial Biennial (2010); and as an editor of the Documenta 12 magazines project. He was on the curatorial team, led by Anselm Franke, of the Tenth Shanghai Biennale, which is on view through March 31 (see page 109).

The resident choreographer and a soloist dancer with the New York City Ballet, Justin Peck has performed principal roles in such productions as George Balanchine’s Concerto Barocco, 1941, and Firebird, 1949; Jerome Robbins’s West Side Story Suite, 1995; and Benjamin Millepied’s Plainspoken, 2010. As a choreographer, he has received commissions from numerous institutions, including the School of American Ballet and the New World Symphony. He is currently at work on a new interpretation of Aaron Copland’s Rodeo, 1942, for the New York City Ballet, which will premiere at the David H. Koch Theater

Brooks Headley has been the executive pastry chef of Del Posto in New York since March 2008. During that time he has helped the restaurant earn four stars in the New York Times, and in 2013 he was honored with the James Beard Foundation Award for Outstanding Pastry Chef. Headley has also been playing drums for more than twenty years, in a series of underground bands (Born Against, Universal Order of Armageddon, Young Pioneers, Skull Kontrol, Wrangler Brutes, Oldest, C.R.A.S.H., Music Blues). W. W. Norton has just released his first cookbook, Fancy Desserts, which features photography and design

Jessie Stead is a New York–based artist working in installation, cinema, music, collaboration, and other overlapping disciplines. She is the experimental percussionist in the art band #hariboner, currently recording their debut LP.

Liz Craft is a sculptor who lives and works in Los Angeles, where she co-runs the gallery Paradise Garage. This summer, her work was on view at Zurich’s Hacienda gallery (in a show with Lisa Anne Auerbach) and in Paris with Pentti Monkkonen at Pro Choice/Shanaynay gallery. Her work can be seen this fall in “Golden State,” a group show curated by Drew Heitzler at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson.

The author of more than twenty books, including the best-selling Mars trilogy (Bantam, 1992–96) and, most recently, the critically acclaimed 2312 (2012) and Shaman (2013; both Orbit), Kim Stanley Robinson is the winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards for science fiction. He is an active affiliate of the Sierra Nevada Research Institute at the University of California, Merced, and lives in Davis, California.

Ana Lily Amirpour is a Los Angeles–based filmmaker. Her most recent feature, a black-and-white Iranian vampire western titled A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and opened New Directors/New Films in March at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, which co-organizes the festival with the Film Society of Lincoln Center. She is currently working on her next film, The Bad Batch, a postapocalyptic cannibal love story.

Composer, performer, and educator Pauline Oliveros is the founder of the Deep Listening Institute and a professor of music in the Department of Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. Currently composing The Nubian Word for Flowers—an opera produced in collaboration with author and director Ione—Oliveros is included in this year’s Whitney Biennial.

Fred Tomaselli is an artist based in New York. His paintings and collages have been exhibited at such institutions as the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA; and the Aspen Art Museum. A survey of his work is currently on view at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, through March 23. This May, Prestel will publish The Times, a book comprising Tomaselli’s recent series of manipulated New York Times front pages.

The creator of the early Web fonts Verdana and Georgia, Matthew Carter is a type designer based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has worked at Linotype and Bitstream, and since 1991 has been a principal of the firm Carter & Cone Type. His most recent designs are Carter Sans for Monotype Imaging, and Sitka for Microsoft.

Bunny Rogers is an artist and poet who lives and works in New York, where she is currently in residency at the Queens Museum of Art. Recent activities include a solo show at Appendix Project Space in Portland, Oregon; an exhibition, with Benjamin Asam Kellogg, at Sandy Brown, Berlin; and a multimedia installation at 319 Scholes, Brooklyn, with Filip Olszewski. A book of her poetry, My Apologies Accepted, is forthcoming from Civil Coping Mechanisms.