Erica C. Barnett is an award-winning political reporter. She started her career at The Texas Observer and went on to work as a reporter and news editor for The Austin Chronicle, Seattle Weekly, and The Stranger. She now covers addiction, housing, poverty, and drug policy at her blog, The C Is for Crank. She has written for a variety of local and national publications, including The Huffington Post, Seattle Magazine, and Grist. Kristi Coulter is the author of the memoir-in-essays Nothing Good Can Come from This, a 2019 finalist for the Washington State Book Award. Her work has also appeared in Elle, The Paris Review, New York Magazine, Vox, The Believer, and elsewhere. She lives in Seattle and is at work on the forthcoming Exit Interview, a literary memoir of her decade as an executive at Amazon.
