The Best American Magazine Writing 2015

by The American Society of Magazine Editors

  JONATHAN VAN METER is a contributing editor at New York and Vogue as well as the founding editor of Vibe. He is the author of The Last Good Time: Skinny D’Amato, the Notorious 500 Club, and the Rise and Fall of Atlantic City.

  JAMES VERINI is a writer based in Africa.

  EMILY YOFFE is a Slate contributor who has written the magazine’s “Dear Prudence” advice column since 2006. She also writes for Slate about culture, health, politics, and science. Her writing has appeared in many publications, including Esquire, the Los Angeles Times, the New Republic, the New York Times, O the Oprah Magazine, and the Washington Post. She is the author of the book What the Dog Did: Tales from a Formerly Reluctant Dog Owner. She was a senior editor at Texas Monthly, where she won the Press Club of Dallas Investigative Reporting award for her story “The Deadly Doctor.” She was a John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University. She is a graduate of Wellesley College.