The Braintrust

Project Word depends on the following editorial advisers for occasional editorial guidance and assistance to writers:

Aina Barten
Freelance editor, former features editor at Orion magazine

Daniel Bellow
Freelance writer, former editorial writer, Pulitzer Prize–winning Berkshire Eagle newspaper

Mark Dowie
Author, investigative reporter and winner of four National Magazine awards

Cynthia Gorney
UC Berkeley journalism professor and freelance writer for Harper’s, Vanity Fair, etc.

Sarah Lipincott
Book reviewer for the Los Angeles Times, freelance book editor, writing teacher at the California Institute of Technology, and former non-fiction editor at The New Yorker

Ian Shearn
Freelance investigative reporter, coordinator of Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation team at Newark Star-Ledger in 2005