Prevention is a trusted go-to guide that motivates readers to feel their best, head to toe, inside and out. For more than 70 years, Prevention has been the dominant thought leader in the health and wellness space -- delivering authoritative information, expert advice and fresh, surprising healthy-living tips. Marisa Cohen is Deputy Editor at Prevention , where she writes about brain health and other topics and edits the Brain Games pages. She is also a lifelong puzzle and trivia fanatic, having competed six times in the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament and appeared on both Jeopardy! and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire . Elise Caccappolo is Director of the Neuropsychology Service and Professor of Neuropsychology at Columbia University. A board-certified clinical neuropsychologist, she specializes in evaluating memory disorders, mild cognitive impairment, dementia, concussion, movement disorders, and other cognitive concerns. She is also an active researcher whose work has focused on neurological disorders including Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease. Laura Braunstein is a digital librarian in New Hampshire who has been making crosswords for over ten years.

In 2018, she and Tracy Bennett founded The Inkubator, which published crosswords by women and non-binary people. She has been published in the New York Times , the Washington Post , Atlas Obscura , and many indie puzzle outlets. Stella Zawistowski routinely ranks among the top ten crossword solvers in the country, with an average New York Times Sunday crossword solving time of around six minutes. Her puzzles have appeared in the New York Times , the Los Angeles Times , the Wall Street Journal , New York magazine, and other major outlets.