Contributors

Katie Edwards is a writer and broadcaster, and former literary academic. She grew up in the north of England where she still lives now.

Sean Egan is a music and sports journalist, and has previously edited Keith Richards on Keith Richards, The Mammoth Book of The Beatles and The Mammoth Book of The Rolling Stones.

Tracey Egan has worked as an accountant for the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland and is the mother of twins who wrote It Gets Easier during their nap-time.

Mark Edwards is a corporate speech writing coach who has helped his clients win over $10 billion's worth of new businesses pitches as a pitch doctor in the media, marketing and advertising industries. He began his career as a business journalist 25 years ago; for over two decades his writing appeared on a weekly basis in The Sunday Times. He is the co-author of Belonging: the key to transforming and maintaining diversity, inclusion and equality at work and the author of The Tao of Bowie: 10 lessons from David Bowie's life to help you live yours.

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.

Paul Edmondson is Head of Research and Knowledge and Director of the Stratford-upon-Avon Poetry Festival for The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. He has published numerous articles and books on Shakespeare and speaks at academic conferences and other Shakespeare related gatherings around the world. He is a trustee of The Rose Theatre and Chair of The Hosking Houses Trust for women writers.

Betty Edwards is an American art teacher, lecturer and author of the preeminent book on its subject Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. Now retired from her position as Professor Emeritus of Art at California State University in Long Beach, she continues to write, consult and participate in Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain workshops. She lives in California.

Esi Edugyan's Washington Black has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018 and The Scotiabank Giller Prize 2018. Her previous novel, Half Blood Blues won the Scotiabank Giller Prize and was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize, the Governor-General's Literary Award, the Rogers Writers' Trust Prize, and the Orange Prize. She lives in Victoria, British Columbia

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.

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.

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.

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.