Contributors

Dr Florence Hazrat is a researcher and writer, and a world expert on the history and culture of punctuation. A BBC New Generation Thinker, Dr Hazrat has appeared on Radio 4's Word of Mouth and is the host of a podcast on punctuation, Standing on Points. Her first book, An Admirable Point, a cultural history of the exclamation mark, was published by Profile in 2022.

Sam Hawken is the best-selling and Crime Writers' Association Dagger-nominated author of The Dead Women of Juárez, Tequila Sunset and Missing, collectively known as The Borderland Trilogy. He makes his home in Maryland with his wife and son.

She and He are the pseudonyms of a couple who first met at university and then lost touch. When they met again twenty years later, they began an affair which led to the Mistress Contract, which has been in force for over 30 years. They live in separate houses in the same city on the west coast of America. She is 88. He is 93.

John Hegley performs live in venues all over Britain. He appears on television and radio and his poems have been featured regularly in the Guardian. He has published numerous volumes of poetry, including My Dog is a Carrot[97880744586336], which sold 8,500 copies, and Uncut Confetti [9780413775702] which sold 4,000 copies.

Heinz Helle was born in 1978. He studied philosophy in Munich and New York. He has worked as copywriter for advertising agencies, and is a graduate of the Swiss Literature Institute in Biel. Superabundance is his first book.

Jessica Hatcher-Moore is a non-fiction writer who has won awards for her reporting on women in conflict, women's rights and global health issues. Born in Shropshire, she was educated at Oxford University. She lives in Wales. @jessiehatcher on Twitter and @jessiejanehatcher on Instagram.

Rosemary Hawthorne is an expert on historical fashion and acclaimed author. Rosemary has appeared as a expert speaker on several television programmes including Antiques Roadshow, The Victorians, with Jeremy Paxman, The One Show and BBC Woman's Hour.

Natalie Haynes took her Cambridge degree in Classics which she also once taught in public schools. She is an award-winning comic, and a regular panellist on the BBC's Newsnight Review, Saturday Review and Front Row. She has been a guest columnist for The Times since 2006. Profile published the hardback in 2010 [9781846683237].

Olive Heffernan is an award-winning science journalist. Her work has been published in Nature, WIRED, National Geographic,
Salon, Scientific American and BBC Wildlife, among other outlets. Now freelance, Olive spent a number of years with Nature covering climate change, including as first chief editor of the research journal Nature Climate Change.

In 2019, she joined the faculty of Johns Hopkins University as an adjunct lecturer and received a Giles St Aubyn Award for non-fiction from the Royal Society of Literature. In 2024, she was funded by the Pulitzer Centre to report on ocean conservation in Europe.

Her first book THE HIGH SEAS: Ambition, Power and Greed on the Unclaimed Ocean was published in 2024. She lives by the sea in Ireland.

David Hendy is a writer, broadcaster and Emeritus Professor of Media and Cultural History at the University of Sussex. His books include Life on Air: A History of Radio Four, which won the Longmans-History Today Book of the Year Award and was nominated for the Orwell Prize.

Dr Jeffrey Herbst is the President of Colgate University and an accomplished scholar of international politics.

Stuart Heritage is a writer and columnist for Guardian, The Times, i and Esquire, and the author of Don't be a Dick, Pete. In addition to this, he has written for a range of publications and television programmes, founded and edited award-winning blogs. For two years running he was named as one of the 50 most influential emerging figures in the British media by Independent, an honour that has singularly failed to manifest itself into anything even slightly meaningful. He is also bald, as you may have deduced by now.

Judith Hermann was born in Berlin in 1970. She is the author of The Summer House, Later and Nothing but Ghosts, which have received a number of literary awards including the Kleist Prize. She lives and works in Berlin.

Glenn Harrison is a Distinguished University Professor; the C. V. Starr Chair of Risk Management & Insurance; and director of the Center for the Economic Analysis of Risk, Maurice R. Greenberg School of Risk Science, J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University. He is also an adjunct professor at the School of Economics, University of Cape Town. He studies the economics of risk.