Featured Writers

	Editor Jim Dodson grew up in Greensboro (Grimsley class of 1971). He is the award-winning author of several bestselling books including Final Rounds, Faithful Travelers, Beautiful Madness, A Golfer's Life (with Arnold Palmer) and Ben Hogan: An American Life. In 2009, his book A Son of The Game was selected "Golf Book of the Year," and in 2011 he was presented the prestigious Donald Ross Award by the American Society of Golf Course Architects for his literary contributions to the game. He began his career at the Greensboro News-Record and went on to serve as senior writer for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Sunday Magazine, Yankee Magazine, and longtime contributing editor of Golf Magazine, collecting numerous national magazine awards. His work has appeared in more than fifty magazines and periodicals worldwide. After serving as distinguished Charles Rubin Writer-in-Residence at Hollins University, he returned six years ago to North Carolina to work as Sunday essayist for The Pilot newspaper and editor of PineStraw Magazine.
	Senior Editor David Bailey holds degrees from Wake Forest and UNC-G, and is a former executive editor for Sky Magazine and Business North Carolina Magazine. David is a writer who knows the landscape of Piedmont life - especially food and wine, and culture at large - like no other. His engaging and lively writing has won numerous state and national awards, raging from white collar crime to how to properly judge the quality of barbecue. O.Henry readers will quickly fall for David's always-engaging take on Gate City life.
	Contributing Editor Maria Johnson is a nationally-recognized writer and former reporter for the Greensboro News-Record, a storyteller of uncommon skills who grew up in Lexington, Kentucky, hearing tales about "Dubyasee" where her mother graduated college. Eventually she migrated to the Gate City herself, found out what was so special here, settled down and won numerous state and national writing awards. Today, among other things, she's a busy golf team mom - and our joy to have as a regular contributor.
	Contributing Editor Jim Schlosser is one of the most honored newsmen in North Carolina history, a native son who was in the first graduating class at Page High and went on to study English at Guilford College, graduating in 1965. A writer and reporter for the Greensboro News-Record from 1967 until his retirement in 2008, Jim's work has earned numerous awards from the North Carolina Press Association. Among his many additional professional honors, he was awarded the Edward R. Murrow Award in 1984 for outstanding reporting. In 2008, he published 100 of his most memorable stories in The Beat Goes On, a splendid native son's take on the Gate City. A second collection was published a year later. Jim serves on boards for the Greensboro Historical Museum Inc., and Friends of the UNC-G Libraries.

Contributing columnist Jane Borden has won a lot of badges on that iPhone game Gems, which I'm pretty sure is not what it's called, but you get the point. She's baller. Borden got her start performing at the UCB Theatre in New York, then appeared on Comedy Central and VH1, and then started writing stuff: jokes for Saturday Night Live, humor for The New York Times Magazine and VanityFair.com, and the book I Totally Meant to Do That. Vanity Fair called her book "affectionate" and New York Magazine deemed it "lowbrow-brilliant." Her favorite unintentionally hilarious compliment is when people say, "I really loved it, and I *do not* read." Now, Jane lives in Tennessee, where she got mixed up with standup comedy, and so is now performing regularly in Nashville, New York, and Chapel Hill. She's thrilled. Thrilled? Thrilled. Really just thrilled.