Peter Wild is the author and editor of a number of books and has written for publications including The Guardian and The Independent.
Rachel Poliquin is a writer and curator. She is the author of The Breathless Zoo: Taxidermy and the Cultures of Longing (2012) and has curated natural history exhibits for the Museum of Vancouver and the Beaty Biodiversity Museum at the University of British Columbia. She lives in Vancouver, Canada.
Mari Grinde Arntzen is a journalist who writes for Aftenposten and Dagens Næringsliv, and teaches at the School of Fashion Industry in Oslo.
Barbara Gallani is Director of Food Safety and Science at the UK Food and Drink Federation. She lives in London.
R. Paul Thompson is Professor at the Institute of the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology and in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Toronto. His books include The Moral Question and Agro-Technology: A Philosophical Introduction and he is the editor of Issues in Evolutionary Ethics and Evolutionary Biology: Conceptual, Ethical and Religious Issues (with Denis Walsh).
Edward J. Hughes is Professor of French at Queen Mary, University of London. His books include Writing Marginality in Modern French Literature: from Loti to Genet (2001) and Proust, Class, and Nation (2011). He edited The Cambridge Companion to Camus (2007).
John Lindow is Professor of Scandinavian at the University of California, Berkeley. His books include Norse Mythology: A Guide to Gods, Heroes, Rituals and Beliefs (2002).
Shane McCausland is Percival David Professor of the History of Art at SOAS University of London. His many books include The Mongol Century: Visual Cultures of Yuan China, 1271–1368 (2014) and The Art of the Chinese Picture-Scroll (2023), both published by Reaktion Books.
Renee Marton is a former chef based in New York who has written widely on food, cooking and culinary history.
Robert Harbison is former Professor of Architecture at London Metropolitan University. He is the author of many books including Eccentric Spaces (1977), The Built, the Unbuilt and the Unbuildable (1991), Reflections on Baroque (Reaktion, 2000), Travels in the History of Architecture (Reaktion, 2010) and Ruins and Fragments: Tales of Loss and Rediscovery (Reaktion, 2015).