The writers, editors, and contributors who report the region from city streets to coastal calm.
Christian Shane Dougherty founded City to Coast Magazine to chronicle the life carried between Pennsylvania's Brandywine Valley and Delaware's shoreline, a corridor he has spent his career walking, selling, and celebrating.
An independent real estate professional and the publisher behind Society Media, he sets the editorial standard for the magazine: formal in voice, generous in spirit, and always local. Ten percent of every advertising dollar is pledged back to the communities the magazine covers.
Read the Publisher's LetterWellness, finance, food and wine, and the working side of the region.
Amy Silvestri is the founder of Bella Forma House in Wilmington, where classical Pilates meets a café, a community, and a standard of hospitality rarely found in a studio.
After fifteen years inside corporate banking, she rebuilt her working life around movement and the people it brings together. As Wellness Editor she reports on strength, longevity, and the quiet discipline of taking care of oneself well.
Read her story
Alex DelCollo advises families and business owners across the Mid-Atlantic, translating complicated financial questions into plain, actionable language.
Her columns for City to Coast approach money the way a good advisor does: patiently, without jargon, and with an eye on the decades ahead rather than the quarter.
Read Money for Real Life
Musician, vintner, and trained chef, Paul Cullen has spent a lifetime moving between the stage, the kitchen, and the vineyard.
As Guest Editor he brings the table and the cellar into the magazine, writing on wine, travel, and the unhurried European habits worth importing to our own shore.
Read the guest editor feature
Jamie Vai reports from the working side of the region, the trades, services, and family businesses that keep homes standing and neighborhoods running.
His contributions give the magazine its ground truth, profiling the people whose expertise is earned on site rather than online.
Read his feature
With fifty four years of culinary experience, Chef Murray Schulman writes with the authority of a professional and the ease of a neighbor at the grill.
His columns favor technique over trend: heat, timing, seasoning, and the confidence to cook for a crowd without ceremony.
Read his column
Mark Sanders is the founder of FirmSideAI, an artificial intelligence company he runs from the FinTech Building at the University of Delaware as part of the GrowthStage Incubator.
He spent thirteen years building a retail brand before turning to the technology he had followed since the nineties. For City to Coast he translates artificial intelligence into plain language, the practical tools first and the science fiction last.
Read his columnInterested in contributing to City to Coast Magazine? We welcome writers, photographers, and specialists from across the region.