Our associate editor at EAST, Nina has written this year about land preservation, Montauk ghost stories, and Trump helicopters. Born and raised in Bridgehampton, she graduated from Wesleyan University in 2016. When she’s not working, she can be found driving to the beach in her Volvo station wagon with her dog, Tucker, riding shotgun.

Kurt Wenzel is a novelist who lives in Springs.

Bruce Buschel is a writer, director, and producer. He lives in Bridgehampton and can be reached at [email protected].

Virginia Breen​ is a rising junior at the Lawrenceville School in Lawrenceville, ​N.J., where she has developed a passion for journalism. She lives in East Hampton and started as an intern at The Star in June 2017.
 

Jackie Pape joined The East Hampton Star as a reporter in May 2017. She is a native of Southampton and a graduate of Wake Forest University, where she studied communications and journalism.

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Twitter:  @jackie_pape 

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Jon M. Diat, who retired in 2017 from his post as chief media spokesman for A.I.G. in New York City, keeps his 30-foot Down East-style boat in Sag Harbor, a short ride from his house on North Haven. He digs clams, surfcasts, traps lobster and blue claw crabs, dredges scallops every November, farms his own oysters, and fishes from the Peconics out to Cox’s Ledge and beyond just about every chance he gets. His first byline came when he was 15 and was the fishing reporter for The Shelter Island Reporter. He wrote the “Happy Hooker” column in the 1990s for Hamptons Scene magazine.

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