Writer and photographer Paul Wachter's work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, ESPN’s The Undefeated/Andscape, Grantland, The Ringer, New York Magazine, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Nation, The Atlantic, and other publications. Wachter grew up in Columbia, South Carolina, and attended Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. After beginning his career in Beirut, Lebanon, he lived in Manhattan for a decade before moving in 2012 to California. Since 2021, he has been based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.