The Wiki Editing Bug (Not the right moment for a bug! by Kat Rectenwald on Rage against Quora) has now hit this Answer Wiki too: entries are starting to disappear.
I will be updating my answer until the bug settles. Updating also from All the Top Writers for 2016 have been declared, but some of our favourites, unfortunately, didn’t make the list. Who are your favourites who didn’t make the list, and should be a new Top Writer in 2017?
EDIT: The bug seems to have gone away, so I’m no longer updating this answer.
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2017 First Time Top Writers (listed alphabetically by first name):
- Aaron Yip
- Aditya Kulkarni
- Amanda Harris
- Andrea Livo
- Andrew Weill
- Appu Pandey
- Asher Nitin
- Athena Walker
- Aviral Bhatnagar
- Audrey Ackerman
- Awdhesh Singh
- Barbara Robson
- Ben Waggoner
- Carolyn Dalton
- Cecili Chadwick
- Cody Shirk
- Connie Hammis
- Cristian Montes de Oca
- Dale Thomas
- Dana Sun
- Dave Buchfuhrer
- Dimitra Triantafyllidou
- Glenn Luk
- Heather Jedrus
- Jacob Minz
- Jade Kandel
- Jennifer Edeburn
- Joe Buettner
- Josephine Stefani
- Joshua Pan
- Kala Veon
- Katya Kirichenko
- Kaushal Sinha
- Kim Aaron
- Kittie Eubank
- Larry Dixon
- Katakam Manas Teja
- Mariana Ferreira Albuquerque
- Melissa Myer
- Menique Aviles
- Mercedes R. Lackey
- Michelle Hozey
- Michelle Toich
- Mohan Vanamalai
- Neil Menon
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- Orlando Barrios
- Pedro Miranda
- Prasanna Sivakumar (பிரசன்னா சிவகுமார்)
- Rebecca Baldwin
- Robin Thomas
- Roman Trusov
- Ryan Borker
- Sable de Oliveira
- Sierra Spaulding
- Stefan Pociask
- Tyagarajan Sundaresan
- Vadim Berman
- William Murphy
- Yash Geryani