As the deputy editor, Joe Fassler has covered the intersections of food, policy, technology, and culture for The New Food Economy since 2015. His food reporting has twice been a finalist for the James Beard Foundation Award in Journalism, and he is also the editor of Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Creative Process  (Penguin, 2017); it is a book based on By Heart, his ongoing series of literary conversations for The Atlantic.