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AYN-MONIQUE KLAHRE /

WRITER The freelance writer and producer covers design, DIY, and lifestyle topics for publications including Better Homes & Gardens, Real Simple, and The New York Times. Originally from Virginia, Klahre spent more than a decade working in New York City as a magazine editor before moving to Raleigh last summer. While interviewing Tucker Idol for this issue’s Story of a House, the two swapped tales of sky-high rents for laughable square-footage. “Idol’s can-do attitude inspired me to get going on an art project that had been on my to-do list for a while. Next up: Learning to use a welder.”

JILLIAN CLARK /

PHOTOGRAPHER Clark is a portrait and advertising photographer who captured this month’s At the Table. “What hit me about Oakwood Pizza Box was the element of family. Anthony is so family-centered and it shows in his restaurant and his craft. And he cares so much about the integrity of the ingredients. It’s as impressive as it is delicious.”

TRAVIS LONG /

PHOTOGRAPHER The 15-year veteran photographer for The News & Observer’s photographs and documentary video work have garnered dozens of state, national, and international awards. Long lives in Raleigh with his wife of 20 years and his three schoolaged children. He is an animal lover, bicycle-commuter, runner, home brewer, and licensed drone pilot; in this issue, he photographs Artist in Studio, and returns to the Our Town section, which he has photographed many times.

IZA WOJCIECHOWSKA /

WRITER Wojciechowska grew up in the west Texas desert and now lives in Durham, where she works as a writer and editor. When she’s not working, she goes hiking with her hound, cooks, and translates Polish poetry. She enjoyed meeting a new-to-her artist for this month’s Artist in Studio. “Visiting Duncan’s knife-making studio and getting to see the raw wood and metal that get turned into beautiful knives by the process’s end was fascinating – and not something I’d probably ever come across in my daily life.”