Award-win­ning jour­nal­ist Chris Heath has writ­ten about a wide array of sub­jects for GQ, The Atlantic, Esquire and Van­i­ty Fair. His sto­ry 18 Tigers, 17 Lions, 8 Bears, 3 Cougars, 2 Wolves, 1 Baboon, 1 Macaque, and 1 Man Dead in Ohio won the 2013 Nation­al Mag­a­zine Award for Report­ing; his sto­ry The Mili­ti­a­men, the Gov­er­nor and the Kid­nap­ping That Wasn’t was nom­i­nat­ed for the 2023 Nation­al Mag­a­zine Award for Fea­ture Writ­ing. He has also writ­ten about pop­u­lar cul­ture, includ­ing the books Pet Shop Boys, Lit­er­al­ly, and the 2004 UK best­seller Feel, about British pop star Rob­bie Williams. He co-wrote the lyrics for the Roy­al Shake­speare Company’s The Boy in the Dress, which pre­miered in Strat­ford in Novem­ber 2019. Based in Brook­lyn, Heath grew up south of Birm­ing­ham in the Unit­ed Kingdom.