Cynthia Huff, an English Studies Professor Emerita at Illinois State University, has co-authored with Joel Haefner, "His Master's Voice: Animalographies, Life Writing, and the Posthuman" and authored "Framing Canine Memoirs" and "'Forward!': National Identity, Animalographies, and the Ethics of Representation in the Posthuman Imaginary." She has also published extensively on diaries, Victorian literature, and women's life writing.

Margaretta Jolly is Professor of Cultural Studies and directs the Centre for Life History and Life Writing Research at the University of Sussex. Her work has focused on auto/biography, letter writing and oral history, particularly in relation to women's movements. She published Thank you, Madagascar: The Conservation Diaries of Alison Jolly, her late mother's last book, in 2015.