Contributors
SCRIBE QUARTERLY is a magazine about Jewish life, culture, and ideas—a reader’s guide to the contemporary Jewish world.
MIKE Austin is an award-winning illustrator, graphic designer and chil- dren’s book author. He is the author- illustrator of JUNKYARD and Monsters Love Colors . Mike lives in Hawaii with his
EDITOR IN CHIEF Hamutal Dotan
ART DIRECTOR Carol Moskot CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Phoebe Maltz Bovy
Avi Finegold COPY EDITOR
wife, illustrator Jing Jing Tsong.
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JOHN Lorinc is a Toronto journalist and editor. He writes about cities, climate, and business for pub- lications including The Globe and Mail and Spacing. His 2024 book, No Jews Live Here , won this year’s Canadian Jewish Literary Award for memoir. ANNITA Soble is an illustrator and multi-disciplinary artist. She has worked with many institu- tions and publishers, illustrated children’s books, and is currently art-directing a feature- length animated film. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and five children.
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