William (Bill) Buice is a member of The Keats-Shelley Association of America (Past President) and a member of The Grolier Club (Past President). He served as past Chairman of the Council of Fellows of The Morgan Library and Museum and was an ex officio member of its Board of Trustees. He is a member of various other bibliophilic societies and clubs in the United States and abroad. He is a long-time collector of books, prints and manuscript materials relating to the English Romantics and has presented programs on those collecting interests and individual authors and publishers to a number of institutions in the United States and in England. His most recent presentations on his collecting interests have been to The American Friends of the British Library, The Grolier Club and the Roxburghe Club (San Francisco).

Iris Cushing is an editor and poet living in the Catskill mountains. Her poems and critical writings have appeared or are forthcoming in Granta, Fence, Post45 and the Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day series, among others. Her poetry collection Wyoming won the 2014 Furniture Press Poetry Prize. She is most recently the author of The First Books of David Henderson and Mary Korte: A Research (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2020), and Into the Long Long Time: How Mary Korte Saved the Redwoods (Ink Cap Press, 2019). She is a recipient of the Diane di Prima Fellowship from the Center for the Humanities from 2016-2018, and edited three chapbooks for the Lost & Found Poetics Document Initiative: Diane di Prima: Prometheus Unbound as a Magickal Working (Series VIII) Bobbie Louise Hawkins: The Sounding Word and Judy Grahn: Selections from Blood, Bread and Roses (Series VI). Iris is a founding editor for Argos Books, an independent poetry and translation press.

Judith Goldman is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Poetics Program at University at Buffalo (SUNY, Buffalo). She is author of four books of poetry, including Vocoder (Roof Books 2001); DeathStar/rico-chet (O Books 2006); l.b.; or, catenaries (Krupskaya 2011); and agon (Operating System 2017). In 2018-2019, she collaborated on two full-gallery museum shows featuring large format, digital-print hybrid artist books of her poetry that explore 500 years of British and US cultural history around the Northwest Passage and Open Polar Sea, together with contemporary Polar tourism, shipping, extractive capitalism, and climate science. She has written a number of articles on contemporary American poetry, including “Dysachrony: Temporalities and their discontents, in new and old Romanticisms,” which appeared in the critical anthology Active Romanticism (2015). Her current work-in-progress is the first volume of ______ Mt. [blank mount], which reads and reads readings of Shelley's "Mont Blanc" and other Romantic-era texts, and engages the long history of cultural imagination around the mountain Mont Blanc, to stage poetry as a process of medial encounter and as anachronistic, "untimely collaboration" towards a twenty-first century Romanticism. She is also Poetry Features editor for Postmodern Culture.

Mike Goode is Professor of English and the William P. Tolley Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Humanities at Syracuse University, where he researches and teaches on British Romanticism, media, ecology, critical theory, and gender. His book Romantic Capabilities: Blake, Scott, Austen, and the New Messages of Old Media was published by Oxford University Press in 2020. His earlier book, Sentimental Masculinity and the Rise of History, 1790-1890, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2009. His interdisciplinary articles on British Romanticism, viral media, anthologies and extracting, eighteenth-century political caricatures, aesthetic philosophy, postmodernism, historicist theory, gender, reenacting, and living history museums have appeared in various venues, including Forest Pyle and Jacques Khalip’s Constellations of a Contemporary Romanticism collection for Fordham University Press, and the journals Textual Practice, ELH, Representations, Romantic Circles, and PMLA.

Barbara Henry is the proprietor of Harsimus Press and teaches letterpress printing at The Center for Book Arts in Manhattan. She has published work of Walt Whitman and Lynd Ward, as well as illustrated chapbooks of her own writing. She is a proponent of the book form as an artistic statement and her work can be found in many public and private collections.

Mark Samuels Lasner, Senior Research Fellow at the University of Delaware Library, Musuems and Press, is a collector, bibliographer, typographer, and authority on the literature and art of the Victorian period—not the Romantics. Mark's life’s work has been to gather one of the country’s foremost collections of books, manuscripts, letters, and artworks by British cultural figures who flourished between 1850 and 1900, in particular the Pre-Raphaelites and the writers and illustrators of the 1890s. In 2106, Mark donated more than 10,000 items to the University of Delaware Library. His collection has led him to organize exhibitions co-curated with Margaret D. Stetz, the most recent of which, Aubrey Beardsley, 15o Years Young, is currently on view upstairs here at the Grolier. Mark’s publications include A Selective Checklist of the Published Work of Aubrey Beardsley, The Yellow Book: A Checklist and Index, and the forthcoming Grolier Club Bookplates, Past and Present, co-authored with Alexander L. Ames. A member of the Grolier since 1989, Mark has been involved in any number of organizations dedicated to the book In 2003, he was awarded the Sir Thomas More medal for "private collecting, a public benefit" by the University of San Francisco, joining a group of bibliophiles that includes such luminaries as Lessing Rosenwald, Gordon Ray, and Mary, Viscountess Eccles. Not surprisingly, Mark has described himself as the most dedicated book collector he has ever met and few would disagree.

Eric Lindstrom is a Professor in the Department of English at the University of Vermont, and author of the books Romantic Fiat: Demystification and Enchantment in Lyric Poetry (Palgrave, 2011) and Jane Austen and Other Minds: Ordinary Language Philosophy in Literary Fiction (Cambridge, 2022 [coming out this November!]), as well as the editor of the collection Stanley Cavell and the Event of Romanticism (Romantic Circles Praxis, 2014). He is currently writing a book about Romantic poetics and the modern American “New York School” poet James Schuyler: “James Schuyler and the Poetics of Attention: Romanticism Inside-Out.” He has published around thirty scholarly essays including six on P.B. Shelley: “‘To Wordsworth’ and the White Obi” (SiR, 2008), “Mourning Life” (Romanticism, 2017), “Prometheus Luomenos” (Modern Philology, 2020), “Poetry is Not a Luxury: Audre Lorde and Shellyan Poetics” (RC Praxis, 2021), “Promethean Ethics and Nineteenth-Century Ecologies” (with Kira Braham; Literature Compass, 2022), and a short essay on Shelley and the Lake School Poets in Shelley in Context (forthcoming from Cambridge UP).

Jack Lynch is Distinguished Professor of English at Rutgers University. He is the author of The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson (Cambridge University Press), Becoming Shakespeare: The Unlikely Afterlife That Turned a Provincial Playwright into the Bard (Walker Books), The Lexicographer's Dilemma: The Evolution of 'Proper' English, from Shakespeare to South Park (Bloomsbury), Deception and Detection in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Routledge), and Samuel Johnson in Context (Cambridge University Press). Lynch is also the editor of A Bibliography of Johnsonian Studies, 1986-1998. He has written numerous journal articles and scholarly reviews addressing Johnson and the eighteenth century.

Omar F. Miranda is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of San Francisco. He is editor of On the 200th Anniversary of Lord Byron's Manfred: Commemorative Essays (Romantic Circles); an abridged teaching edition of Mary Shelley’s The Last Man (Romantic Circles); and with Kate Singer, he is co-editor of a forthcoming Cambridge UP volume, Percy Shelley for Our Times. He has published or forthcoming essays in European Romantic Review, Symbiosis, Keats-Shelley Journal, Romantic Circles, Studies in Romanticism, Global Nineteenth-Century Studies, and The Wordsworth Circle as well as book chapters in Byron in Context, ed. Clara Tuite (Cambridge UP), The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel, and Percy Shelley in Context, ed. Ross Wilson (forthcoming Cambridge UP). His article, "The Global Romantic Lyric" (The Wordsworth Circle 2021) recently won the Bigger 6 2021 Article of the Year award from the CECS Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York, UK. His book manuscript in progress tracks the origins and rise of the culture of global celebrity in the Romantic period.

Tomoko Nakagawa, Professor of English Literature at the University of the Sacred Heart, Tokyo, Japan, is author of Aspects of Daily Lives in British Novels (2011, in Japanese) and co-editor of four books on British fiction, including On Frankenstein (2006). Among her English articles are “Naming the Unnameable: Monstrosity and Personification in the First Japanese Translation of Frankenstein and its Illustrations” POETICA (82) 2014; “Roses, Hyacinths, and Pineapples: Historical and Ecocritical Concerns in Northanger Abbey and The Mysteries of Udolpho, Persuasions (41) 2019; “Anglo-Japanese Visual Encounters in 1889: Kipling, Alfred East and the Frankenstein Illustrators,” POETICA (95/96), special issue edited by Stephen Clark and Ian Haywood, 2021. A book chapter entitled “Meiji Japan Responds to Frankenstein: the 1889-1890 translation ‘The New Creator’ and the illustrations” is expected to appear in Robert Lublin and Elizabeth Fay’s volume: The Afterlives of Frankenstein: Popular and Artistic Adaptations and Reimaginings (Bloomsbury Press, forthcoming).

Judith Pascoe is the George Mills Harper Professor of English at Florida State University and the author of four books, including On the Bullet Train with Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights in Japan and The Sarah Siddons Audio Files: Romanticism and the Lost Voice (winner of the Barnard Hewitt Award). On the Bullet Train with Emily Brontë was begun during Pascoe’s tenure as a Fulbright Lecturer in Japan and completed during her year as a Guggenheim Fellow. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Hudson Review, The American Scholar, and Public Books.

Catherine Payling MA (Oxon), ACA, FRSA, MBE is an auctioneer, specializing in decorative arts, jewelry, and books. Payling currently works at Christie’s and is the former director of the rare books division of an East Coast gallery and former curator/director of the Keats House Museum in Rome. She has expertise in authentication, conservation and preservation of manuscripts and other documents and is a fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce. Payling was awarded the Order of the British Empire (MBE) medal in 2003.

Matt Sandler is director of the MA program in American Studies at the Columbia University Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race. He is the author of The Black Romantic Revolution: Abolitionist Poets at the End of Slavery as well as a number of journal articles, book chapters, and blog posts. He has been for the past 5 years the co-chair of the Columbia University Seminar in American Studies, and he is a member of the Bigger 6 Collective.

David Solo is a Brooklyn based collector, independent writer/editor and researcher focused on artists’ and photo books and related art. He is a frequent speaker and writer on artists’/photo books in NY and Europe and is actively involved with a number of art and book institutions in London and New York, serving on various boards and committees including the Grolier Club, 10x10 Photobooks, the NYPL, Kraszna-Krausz Foundation, and MIT List Visual Art Center. David is a co-founder of the Book Art Review initiative with Center for Book Arts in NY, co-organized Photo Poetry Surfaces as part of the Bristol Photo Festival, and curated the Photobibliomania exhibition at the ICP library. Most recently he is working on the global history of photography and poetry combinations in book form as well as related photo-text topics. Retired in 2020, his professional career has been in the technology, risk and financial sectors.

Lissette Lopez Szwydky is Associate Professor of English at the University of Arkansas, where she also serves as Associate Director of the Arkansas Humanities Center. She teaches and publishes in the areas of Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Adaptation Studies, Transmedia Storytelling, Gender Studies, and the Gothic tradition across forms and media from the Romantic period through the present. She is author of Transmedia Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century (Ohio State University Press 2020). She is also co-editor of a forthcoming volume of essays titled Adaptation Before Cinema: Literary and Visual Convergence from Antiquity through the Nineteenth Century, forthcoming from Palgrave’s “Adaptation and Visual Culture” series in early 2023. Her essays appear in The Routledge Companion to Adaptation (2018), Frankenstein Adapted: The Monster’s Eternal Lives in Popular Culture (2018), and A Cultural History of Tragedy, Volume 5: The Age of Empire (2020). Szwydky is currently working on her second book, Frankenstein’s Bride: A Transmedia Cultural History of Her Own. She also co-directs (with Sean P. Connors) the NEH Summer Institute for K-12 Educators “Remaking Monsters and Heroines: Adapting Classic Literature for Contemporary Audiences.” Szwydky spent 4 years working in academic administration before landing a tenure-track job, and she is committed to helping arts and humanities students prepare for professional life and helping faculty train to mentor students for a range of careers. You can follow her on Twitter @LissetteSz.