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.
Nicholas Tromans has written widely on nineteenth-century British art, including books on David Wilkie, Orientalist painting, G. F. Watts, Richard Dadd and (with Susan Owens) Christina Rossetti and the visual arts. He lives in London.
Rachel King is Curator of Renaissance Europe and the Waddesdon Bequest at the British Museum, London. She has written extensively on Baltic amber and its reception in Italy, Germany and England in the early modern period.
Carolyn Kennett is a writer and astronomer who lives in Cornwall. She is Chair of the Society for the History of Astronomy and a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, and her books include Uranus and Neptune (Reaktion, 2022).
Celia Fisher has lectured and written widely on the history of plants and gardens in art. Her books include Flower: Paintings by 40 Great Artists (2012) and Tulip (Reaktion, 2017).
JR Moores is resident psych-rock columnist for both The Quietus and Record Collector, and his work has also appeared in The Wire, The Guardian, Bandcamp Daily and Vice. He is the author of Electric Wizards: A Tapestry of Heavy Music, 1968 to the Present (Reaktion Books, 2021).
Elizabeth Alice Honig is Professor of Northern European Art at the University of Maryland. She is the author of Jan Brueghel and the Senses of Scale (2016).
Elisabeth Townsend has been writing about food, travel and wine for over twenty years. Her first book was Lobster: A Global History (Reaktion, 2011).
Robin Vose is Professor of History at St Thomas University, Canada. He is the author of Dominicans, Muslims and Jews in the Medieval Crown of Aragon and has served as a National Geographic expert on expeditions to Spain and Morocco.
Helen F. Wilson is Associate Professor of Human Geography at Durham University. She has published widely within social and cultural geography, and lives in Newcastle Upon Tyne.