About OKC Insider

Amely Herman writes with a curious ear and a wanderer's notebook, chasing the everyday rhythms and unexpected characters that make Oklahoma City feel like home. Her stories find the pulse in the ordinary, turning neighborhood moments into narratives that resonate far beyond the city limits.

Golda Gusikowski has a knack for finding the humor and heart in Oklahoma City's everyday chaos, from dog parks to city council meetings. Her profiles and essays capture the city's personality with a blend of wit and warmth, turning ordinary subjects into memorable reads.

Gussie Nolan writes with a poet's precision and a reporter's tenacity, zeroing in on the moments that define Oklahoma City's neighborhoods. Her stories often begin with a seemingly trivial detail—a broken streetlight, a handwritten menu—and grow into explorations of the city's hidden connections and contradictions.

Jarvis Nguyen approaches Oklahoma City with the precision of a cartographer and the curiosity of a first-time visitor, mapping the city's shifting neighborhoods through interviews and data trails. His work strips away boilerplate to reveal the unseen transactions—both human and economic—that define how the capital evolves.

Keely Gerlach finds her beat in the spaces where Oklahoma City's history and its next chapter overlap, turning sidewalk observations and archive discoveries into stories with a forward tilt. Her reporting favors the overlooked detail—a faded storefront sign, a new immigrant's recipe—that reveals how the city keeps reinventing itself.

Viola Perez sees Oklahoma City through the lens of its people, turning porch conversations and lunch-counter debates into features that feel both intimate and essential. Her writing moves between the city's past and its present, tracing the threads that connect a farmer's market vendor to a downtown developer.