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.
Peter Dale lives in Essex, UK. A longstanding contributor to Hortus, he has written extensively on literature, music and gardens, and his previous books include The Irish Garden: A Cultural History (2018) and, with Brandon C. Yen, Versed in Living Nature: Wordsworth’s Trees (Reaktion, 2022).
Brandon C. Yen divides his time between the UK and Taiwan. He is the author of ‘The Excursion’ and Wordsworth’s Iconography (2018).
Alan G. Jamieson is a researcher and writer based in Alberta, Canada. His books include the novel Crossroads of the Years (2008) and Lords of the Sea: A History of the Barbary Corsairs (Reaktion, 2012).
Jarrod Shanahan is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Governors State University in University Park, IL. He is the author of Captives: How Rikers Island Took New York City Hostage and an editor of the magazine Hard Crackers
Zhandarka Kurti is Assistant Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Loyola University, Chicago, and an editor of the magazine Hard Crackers.