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​“The most important thing I’ve learned as an editor is that cultivating relationships with writers is key to producing great stories.”


RUNNER’S WORLD

Twelve Minutes and a Life by Mitchell S. Jackson 
(Winner: 2021 Pulitzer Prize, National Magazine Award for Feature Writing, Dan Jenkins Award for Excellence in Sportswriting; Anthologized in The Year’s Best Sportswriting 2021 and The Best American Magazine Writing 2021)

Lucky’s Last Run by Steve Friedman (Silver: 2023 Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award, Adventure Travel Category)

The Coach Who Found a Better Way to Win by Svati Kirsten Narula

The Unbreakable Spirit of Evans Chebet by Bill Donahue
 
The Survivor: The Karen Sparks Story by Sarah Hepola

Mary Cain, Alexi Pappas, and the Friendship That Saved Them by David Alm

No Turning Back: The Connie Allen Story by David Alm
 
The Apache Runners and Their Quest to Save a Holy Mountain by Annette McGivney
 
Alysia Montaño Is the Hero of This Story by Nicole Blades

Is Mainstream Running Ready to Get High? by David Alm


BICYCLING

He Went Out for a Ride and Never Came Back. What Happened to Nash Quinn? by David Howard

Cycling’s Silent Epidemic by Gloria Liu (Finalist: 2025 National Magazine Award for Service Journalism)

The Alchemists: They Were Some of Afghanistan’s Best Athletes. Then the Taliban Threatened to Kill Them. by Kim Cross

The Truth and Tragedy of Moriah Wilson by Rowan Moore Gerety
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Molly’s Last Ride: In the Poorly Regulated E-Bike Industry, Who Is Responsible When a Child Dies? by Peter Flax

Did Anyone Really Know the Bike Wanderer? By Bill Donahue (Winner: 2022 Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award, Adventure Travel Category)

What Happens When Two Strangers Trust the Rides of Their Lives to the Magic of the Universe by Kim Cross (Winner: 2020 Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award, Foreign Travel Category; Finalist: 2021 Dan Jenkins Award for Excellence in Sportswriting; Anthologized in The Year’s Best Sportswriting 2021)
 
Their Son’s Heart Saved His Life. So He Rode 1,426 Miles to Meet Them. by A.C. Shilton 
(Anthologized in The Year’s Best Sportswriting 2021)

Justin Williams Can See The Future by Carvell Wallace
(Finalist: 2022 National Magazine Award for Profile Writing)
 
Chasing My Father’s Ghost Through the Swiss Alps by James Jung
(Anthologized in The Best American Essays 2021)

Robyn Hightman Found a Life on Bikes. In an Instant It Was Gone. By Peter Flax
(Finalist: 2020 Dan Jenkins Award for Excellence in Sportswriting)

Centuries Ago It Was an Idyllic Earthen Path. Today It’s the Most Dangerous Road for Cyclists in America. by Dan Schwartz
 
I Delivered Weed by Bike and Fell in Love with Cycling by Rosael Torres-Davis

In Search of the Wild Reindeer by Laura Killingbeck

The World’s Best Places to Ride: 2019 Bicycling Travel Awards by Peter Flax

The Redemption of Artis Monroe by Kim Cross
(Anthologized in The Best American Sportswriting 2019)

Sanctuary: When His Dreams Are Shattered by Civil War in Syria, a Promising Young Bike Racer Pins His Future on an Unfamiliar Land. by Andrew Curry

Spun by Steve Friedman (Finalist: 2016 National Magazine Award for Feature Writing; Anthologized in The Best American Sportswriting 2016)


POPULAR MECHANICS

America’s Deadliest Industrial Disaster And the Cover-Up That Erased It from History by Ryan D’Agostino

The Secret Venomous History of Ozempic by Andrew Zaleski

Two Centuries. Three Puzzling Cryptograms. One Ungodly Fortune. by David Howard

The World’s Toughest Row by Leslie Evans Ogden

The Scam That Duped Pokémon’s Most Obsessive Card Collectors by David Howard

His Family Wanted to Donate His Organs. It Shouldn’t Have Been This Hard.​ by Dan Schwartz

What Really Happened at 777 Pine Street? by David Howard

At the Bionic Olympics, Engineers and Athletes Make Miracles by John Brant
 
The $20 Million Bioengineering Gambit to Save the Northern White Rhino by Andrew Zaleski

It Was Supposed to Be the Safest Building in the World. Then It Cracked. by John Brant
 
Inside a NYC Funeral Home’s Mission to Keep Bodies Out of Mass Graves by Clint Carter
 
The Race to Develop a Covid Vaccine by Andrew Zaleski
 



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