Jeremy Harte is a folklorist inspired by landscape and stories of encounters with other worlds. He is the author of Cloven Country: The Devil and the English Landscape (2022) and Travellers through Time: A Gypsy History (2023), both published by Reaktion.
Nicholas P. Money is Professor of Biology and Western Program Director at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He is the author of popular science books on fungi and other microorganisms including, The Amoeba in the Room: Lives of the Microbes (2014), Mushrooms: A Natural and Cultural History (Reaktion, 2017) and The Selfish Ape: Human Nature and Our Path to Extinction (Reaktion, 2019).
John Varriano was Professor Emeritus of Art History at Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts. His books included Tastes and Temptations: Food and Art in Renaissance Italy (2009).
Andreas Viestad is a writer, TV chef, restaurateur, and food activist. He is the longtime host of New Scandinavian Cooking and a former columnist for the Washington Post. He is the author of Kitchen of Light and Where Flavor Was Born and lives between Oslo and Cape Town.
Robert Black is Professor Emeritus of Renaissance History at the University of Leeds. His books include Machiavelli (2013), a Times Literary Supplement ‘Book of the Year’.
Christopher S. Celenza is James B. Knapp Dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University. His previous books include Machiavelli: A Portrait (2015) and The Intellectual World of the Italian Renaissance (2018).
Colleen Taylor Sen lives in Chicago, and is the author of Reaktion’s Curry: A Global History and Feasts and Fasts: A History of Food in India, named one of the best food books of the year by Vogue and the Smithsonian Magazine.
Jonathan Nelson is Teaching Professor of Art History at Syracuse University, Florence. He is the leading specialist on Filippino Lippi, and his many books include, most recently, Risks in Renaissance Art: Production, Purchase, and Reception (2024).
Eleanor Parker is Lecturer in Medieval English Literature at Brasenose College, Oxford. She has a doctorate from the University of Oxford and is a specialist in the literature of medieval England and Scandinavia. She writes regularly for publications including History Today and BBC History Magazine, and is the author of Dragon Lords: The History and Legends of Viking England (2018) and Conquered: The Last Children of Anglo-Saxon England (2022).
Long-time resident of Egypt, Maria Golia is the author of critically acclaimed non-fiction, including Cairo: City of Sand (2004), Photography and Egypt (2009) and Ornette Coleman: The Territory and the Adventure (2020), all published by Reaktion Books.