Contributors

Sarah Stovell was born in 1977 and grew up in Oxfordshire. She lives in Northumberland.

The Velominati are founders of a singular online community – www.velominati.com – which celebrates the history of road cycling with a distinctive point of view, best described as (ir)reverence. Their infamous Rules challenge cycling fans to emulate their heroes in everything from training ('it never gets easier, you just go faster') and equipment ('the correct number of bikes to own is n+1') to sock length and coffee choice. The Rules were published in book form in 2013. Frank Strack, Editor in Chief, spreads the word at bike shows worldwide, and in his column for Cycling magazine.

Randy Street is Managing Partner of ghSMART and co-author of Who. An internationally acclaimed public speaker, he earned his MBA from Harvard Business School.

Whitley Strieber was a successful horror writer before publishing Communion in 1987. The book became a major international bestseller. Strieber is the host of the online radio show 'Dreamland', which covers paranormal phenomena.

Paul Strohm is Professor Emeritus of the Humanities at Columbia University, and has previously been J.R.R. Tolkien Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford.

The Poet's Tale: Chaucer and the year that made The Canterbury Tale sexplores a single year that made Chaucer into a poet, and sparked the creation of The Canterbury Tales.

Noah Keefer Strycker (born February 9, 1986) is an American birdwatcher. In 2015, he set a record for a worldwide Big Year of Birding, seeing 6,042 of the world's estimated 10,400 bird species in a continuous journey spanning all seven continents from January 1 to December 31, 2015.

Lizzy Stewart has written and illustrated three picture books for children alongside 'Walking Distance', an illustrated essay, and It's Not What You Thought It Would Be, a graphic short-story collection. Her debut picture book There's a Tiger in the Garden won the Waterstones Children's Book Prize for Picture Books in 2017 as well as
a World Illustration Award.

Dr Annabel Sowemimo is a doctor, activist and writer. As well as being a Sexual and Reproductive Health registrar in the NHS, she is also the founder of community-based organisation Reproductive Justice Initiative, formed to address the colonial history of sexual and reproductive health. Annabel is also a PhD candidate and Harold Moody Scholar at King's College London. X/Twitter: @sosowemimo.

Angela Steidele has written several books about LGBTQ+ lives in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Love Story: Adele Schopenhauer and Sibylle Mertens was shortlisted for the NDR Kultur non-fiction prize. She won the Gleim Literature Prize for In Men's Clothes, her biography of Catharina Linck, and the Bavarian Book Prize for her novel Rosenstengel. Angela Steidele lives in Cologne.

Tim Steer toured with Meat Loaf, Diana Ross, Cheap Trick, The Cars, The Small Faces, Leo Sayer and Thin Lizzy as a sound engineer, and managed Pink Floyd's sound and lighting system after the release of the The Wall. At the time it was one of the largest systems in the world. He then embarked on a new career, qualifying as a Chartered Accountant with Ernst & Young, and becoming a highly rated investment analyst with HSBC and then Merrill Lynch. In 2000 he joined fund managers New Star and subsequently Artemis, and was one of the top-ranked fund managers in the UK, being rated Triple A by Citywire. He has written regularly for the Sunday Times and Sunday Telegraph and featured in the 2018 Channel 4 Dispatches documentary on the collapse of Carillion.

Ed Trewavas, born and raised in Bristol, has been a van driver, office mule and sports journalist. But for the past 13 years he's worked in a social work capacity in the south of the city. He says of his debut novel: 'In writing Shawnie I was trying to make sense of the daily nightmares I was witness to.' Ed has two teenage daughters and a doomed love for Bristol Rovers.

Paul Stephenson has held teaching and research posts at universities, museums and institutes around the world, including at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and Princeton University. He has held chairs at the Universities of Wisconsin, Nijmegen and Durham. He is author or editor of ten books, including Constantine: Unconquered Emperor, Christian Victor.

Siddharth Soni is the Isaac Newton Trust Fellow at the University of Cambridge, where he is based within Cambridge Digital Humanities (CDH). His research spans digital and computational humanities, post-colonial literature and critical archive studies. He also teaches modern and contemporary literature at the English faculty. His first trade book, Monstrous Archives won the Profile Ideas Prize for non-fiction in 2022.