Authors Ta-Nehisi Coates, Kiese Makeba Laymon, and Jesmyn Ward are among the new contributing editors to Vanity Fair magazine, the Hollywood Reporter reports.

The magazine’s editor-in-chief, Radhika Jones, announced the new hires in an email to Vanity Fair staff. Other authors to join the magazine include Katherine Eban (Bottle of Lies) and Jennifer Palmieri (She Proclaims).

Coates, the National Book Award–winning author of Between the World and Me, guest-edited the September issue of Vanity Fair, which the magazine describes as “a special edition exploring art, activism, and power in 21st-century America.”

“There’s no one better suited than Ta-Nehisi to illuminate this urgent moment in American history—to answer the question, why is this time different?” Jones said in a statement. “We are honored to collaborate with him on this project, bringing together the writers, artists, and icons whose work pushes us toward a more just world.”

The September issue’s cover features artist Amy Sherald’s portrait of Breonna Taylor, the Black woman killed by police officers in March in Louisville, Kentucky, during a “no-knock” raid.

Sherald’s portrait was widely praised on social media. Janai Nelson, the associate director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Educational Fund, tweeted, “Can we pause for one moment to take in #AmySherald’s ethereal portrait of #BreonnaTaylor on the cover of @VanityFair? This is the humanity police officers could not see or even imagine could be on the other side of the door they pummeled with bullets.”

Michael Schaub is a Texas-based journalist and regular contributor to NPR.