Skip Hollandsworth is an award-winning journalist, a screenwriter, and distinguished writer at Texas Monthly. He has won a National Magazine Award for feature writing, and his 2016 book, The Midnight Assassin, was a New York Times bestseller. He also cowrote the acclaimed screenplay Bernie with director Richard Linklater. The film was based on Hollandsworth's 1998 Texas Monthly article "Midnight in the Garden of East Texas." Linklater recently adapted Hollandsworth's Texas Monthly article "Hit Man" for a 2024 feature with Glen Powell. Hollandsworth lives in Texas, where he and his wife have raised two children.
Mimi Swartz is a long-time distinguished writer at Texas Monthly, and a two-time National Magazine Award winner and a four time finalist. The coauthor of the national bestseller Power Failure, with Sherron Watkins, about the failures at Enron, her work has appeared in Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Esquire, Slate, and her op-ed pieces appear regularly in the New York Times.
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