VINCE BEISER

(“To catch a thief”) is a senior features editor with Pacific Standard magazine. His writing has also appeared in Wired, Harper’s, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, and many other publications. This is his first piece for SCM.
 

ROBERT BIESELIN

interviewed Chancellor William J. Rewak, S.J., for Kirkus Reviews, and we liked the interview so much that we include it as part one of “A poem, a prayer, and a martini for the rhino.”
 

MITCH FINLEY ’73

(“This will not be on the test”) is the author of more than 30 books on Catholic themes, including The Rosary Handbook: A Guide for Newcomers, Old-Timers, and Those In Between and The Joy of Being Catholic.
 

JESSE HAMLIN

(“The play’s the thing”) has written for the San Francisco Chronicle, New York Times, and other publications during the past 30 years on a wide range of music and art. He wrote the cover feature, “The Makers,” for the Summer 2012 SCM.
 

CHUCK HILDEBRAND

(“Twice as sweet”) is the author of numerous books on sports, including the definitive history of SCU football, Bronco Sundays (1998), and Hey, I Was at That Game! A California Baseball Odyssey, 1965–91 (2011).
 

MICHAEL S. MALONE ’75, MBA ’77

(“How to avoid a bonfire of the humanities”) is one of the nation’s best-known technology writers. He is the current ABCNews.com “Silicon Insider” columnist and editor-in-chief of the Silicon Valley news site Edgelings.com. A former New York Times columnist, Malone has also contributed numerous articles and editorials to The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, and Fortune. He has also authored and co-authored more than a dozen books, and he lectures in professional writing at SCU’s Department of English.
 

WILLIAM J. REWAK, S.J.

is the Chancellor of Santa Clara University and was interviewed for “A poem, a prayer, and a martini for the rhino.” He published his first collection of poetry, The Right Taxi, in 2012.
 

IRINA RAICU

(“To track or not to track—that is the question”) is the Internet ethics program manager at SCU’s Markkula Center for Applied Ethics.
 

SAM SCOTT ’96

(“Heart of the matter,” “All work and all play,” “A field of their own”) has writerly antennae always at work and has long written for this mag, covering everything from rowing to Saturn V rockets, earning regional and national awards along the way.
 

NOAH WOODS

illustrated our cover and “How to avoid a bonfire of the humanities.” You may have seen his work in magazines like the New Yorker, Rolling Stone, and Time.
 

HEIDI YOUNGER

created the illustration for “A poem, a prayer, and a martini for the rhino.” Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, on the pages of this mag, and other good places.