Contributors

Siofra Dromgoole works as a bookseller at John Sandoe Books. She has written for theatre, film, TV, and radio: her award-nominated plays have been performed to critical acclaim nationally and internationally; her most recent play After Sex was published by Methuen. In 2025, her new translation of Eugene Onegin toured the UK, playing at Holland Park Opera House ('Excellent' – The Times). Her book of poetry Goodbye Scarecrow was published by the San Mei Gallery, and she is currently co-writing a queer vampire western for the BBC. The Book of Lila Ruth is her debut novel.

Dmytro Dubilet is a businessman and politician. Born and raised in Dnipro, Ukraine, he studied at the University of Kyiv and London Business School. In 2017 he co-founded the IT company Fintech Band which then launched the mobile-only Monobank. In 2019 he was appointed Minister of the Cabinet Ministers in the Ukrainian cabinet. He wrote the original Ukrainian edition of How the Tricolor Got Its Stripes during lockdown.

Ariel Eckblad is a lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School and a Distinguished Visiting Professor from Practice at Georgetown Law School where she teaches negotiation and conflict resolution.

Prior to coming to Georgetown, she has held various positions within the U.S. Government. Most recently, she was Deputy Assistant Secretary in the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations where she launched and led the Department's Negotiation Support Unit. Prior to this, she was Chief-of-Staff in the Office of Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and served as the National Security Legislative Counsel in the former Senate office of Vice President Kamala Harris.

Outside of politics, Eckblad has been the visiting Mullen Seminar of Law professor at Georgetown University's School of Government. She has taught at American University's Washington College of Law and the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and holds a doctorate and masters from Harvard Law, the University of Oxford and the University of London respectively. Eckblad has been both a Marshall Scholar in the United Kingdom and a Fulbright Scholar in India.

Bruce Duffy is the author of the The World As I Found It, a fictional life of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Last Comes The Egg. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland.

Charles Dumas has been Head of the World Service at Lombard Street Research since 1998 and is one of the world's leading macroeconomic forecasters. He was previously a journalist at The Economist, an economist at General Motors and J. P. Morgan, and then managing director in JPM's M&A department in New York.

Serge Dumont is one of the most well-known figures in PR and branding in Asia. His involvement in China dates back to 1978 and he established the first PR agency in China.

Tony Eccles is Visiting Professor of Strategic Management at Cass Business School, City University, having previously been Professor of Strategic Management at Glasgow University and London Business School, as well as holding visiting positions at Manchester, Cranfield and Bath Management Schools. In his career he has consulted with many international organisations, been a television presenter and award-winning copywriter. He is the author of Under New Management and Succeeding with Change.

Born in Montevideo in 1959, David Edgerton is one of Britain's leading historians, and has challenged conventional analyses of technology for 20 years. Currently the Hans Rausing Professor at Imperial College London, he writes for the broadsheet press and is a regular on television and radio. He lives in London.

Kathleen DuVal is a professor in the History Department at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is the author of Independence Lost and The Native Ground, and has written for the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune and for the Wall Street Journal. Her most recent book, Native Nations, won the 2024 Cundill History Prize.

Stella Duffy has written thirteen novels published in fifteen languages, over fifty short stories, and ten plays. She has twice won Stonewall Writer of the Year and twice won the CWA Short Story Dagger. She adapted her novel State of Happiness for film with Zentropa/Fiesta, and HBO have optioned her Theodora novels for a TV mini-series. Her story collection, Everything is Moving, Everything is Joined, and her Doctor Who novella Anti-Hero were published in 2014.
Stella is also a theatre-maker; Associate Artist with Improbable, Artistic Director of Shaky Isles Theatre, founder of The Chaosbaby Project. She is the Co-Director of Fun Palaces, the campaign for greater engagement for all – in ALL culture.

John Dufresne is the author of five novels and two books on writing and creativity. John was a 2012-13 Guggenheim Fellow and teaches in the MFA program at Florida International University in Miami. He lives in Dania Beach, Florida.
His first book with Serpent's Tail is No Regrets, Coyote, out in February 2014.

Kim Echlin lives in Toronto. She is the author of Elephant Winter, Dagmar's Daughter, Inanna: From the Myths of Ancient Sumer, and The Disappeared, which was published in seventeen languages, nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and won the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award for Fiction.