Contributors

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.

Amber Hatch is a writer, editor and childminder, with a passion for wellbeing and meaningful connection. She is the author of five books, including The Nappy-Free Baby and Mindfulness for Parents.

Jack Hartnell is Lecturer in Art History at the University of East Anglia, where his research and teaching focuses on the visual culture of medieval and early modern Europe and the Middle East. He has previously held positions at Columbia University, The Courtauld Institute of Art, the Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte and the Victoria and Albert Museum.

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 writes the newsletter Mind the Gap on Substack. Her first book, An Admirable Point, a cultural history of the exclamation mark, was published by Profile in 2022.

Saidiya Hartman is a Columbia University professor of English and Comparative Literature. She is the author ofScenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-making in Nineteenth Century America (Oxford University Press,1997) and Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007). In 2019 Hartman was awarded a prestigious MacArthur 'Genius' grant.

A.S. Hatch grew up in Lancashire in the 90s, and has lived in Taipei and Melbourne. Now he lives in London and writes fiction in his living room-slash-office-slash-gym in the early hours of the morning before going to work in political communications

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.

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.