Michelle Ephraim is a Shakespeare scholar and Professor of English at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Her debut book GREEN WORLD: A Tragicomic Memoir of Love & Shakespeare (UMASS Press, 2024) was awarded the 2023 Juniper Prize for Creative Nonfiction.

Alizah Holstein authored My Roman History (Viking Press, June 2024). She holds a MFA in Creative Writing & Literary Translation from Vermont College of Fine Arts and a PhD in medieval Italian History from Cornell University.