A. Thomas McLellan, PhD, is Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, and the Former Deputy Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.

Adam Bisaga, MD, is an addiction psychiatrist, clinician, researcher, and professor of psychiatry at Columbia University. He conducts research on new treatments for opioid addiction and oversees a national program that mentors physicians treating opioid addictions. He is a UN expert involved in international addiction training and program development.

Adam McKay is a film director, producer, screenwriter, comedian, and climate advocate. His productions have been nominated for multiple Academy Awards and include Don’t Look Up, Vice, The Big Short, and Succession. In 2019 he founded the production company Hyperobject Industries, referring to the “hyperobject” of climate change, which explains why the crisis is so hard to identify the bounds of and intervene in at the scale required.

Adam Rutherford is a geneticist, science writer, and broadcaster. He studied genetics at University College London, and during his PhD on the developing eye, he was part of a team that identified the first known genetic cause of a form of childhood blindness. As well as writing for the science pages of The Guardian, he has written and presented many award-winning series and programs for the BBC, including the flagship weekly Radio 4 program Inside Science, The Cell for BBC Four, and Playing God (on the rise of synthetic biology) for the leading science series Horizon. He is also the author of How to Argue With a Racist, an incisive guide to what modern genetics can and can’t tell us about human difference; The Book of Humans, a new evolutionary history that explores the profound paradox of the “human animal”; A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in nonfiction; and Creation, on the origin of life and synthetic biology, which was short-listed for the Wellcome Book Prize.

Adrien Zammit is a graphic designer and cycling enthusiast. He has always cycled, in town and in the countryside, and has taken a liking to bikepacking adventures. He lives in an Auvergne village, in central France, where his bicycle is his only vehicle.

Alan Barclay, PhD, is a consultant dietitian who worked for Diabetes Australia (NSW) from 1998-2014. He is coauthor of The New Glucose Revolution for Diabetes and a member of the editorial boards of the Diabetes Australia’s consumer magazine, Conquest, and health professional magazine, Diabetes Management Journal. Barclay is currently Chief Scientific Officer at the Glycemic Index Foundation.

Albert A. Seedman (1918–2013) was an NYPD deputy inspector overseeing four Queens detective squads when Kitty Genovese was murdered. An unlikely policeman when he first joined the force (he had been a certified public accountant), he ultimately rose through the ranks to become Chief of Detectives in New York City—at the helm of an investigative force second only to the FBI in size. A legend in his own time, he is remembered for his keen insights into the many high-profile cases that crossed his desk.

Alberto Flores d’Arcais was born in Rome and graduated from the University of Rome with a degree in philosophy. He’s written for newspapers and magazines since the 1970s and has reported on hard-hitting issues like civil wars, drug trafficking, and the collapses of dictatorships internationally since the 1980s. In 2002, he was a John S. Knight Fellow for Journalism at Stanford University. He now divides his time between New York and Rome.

Alejandro Giraldo holds a degree in graphic design from UPB Medellín and a master’s in art direction from ELISAVA (the Barcelona School of Design and Engineering). He runs the clothing company Velmost and works as a freelance illustrator. He lives in Medellín, Colombia.

Aleksi Hoffman is an engineer and former competitive cyclist with a passion for behavioral change who steers the direction of the mobile app.

Alex Bellos holds a degree in mathematics and philosophy from Oxford University. His bestselling books Here’s Looking at Euclid and The Grapes of Math have been translated into more than 20 languages and were both shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book prize. His puzzle books include Can You Solve My Problems?, Puzzle Ninja, Perilous Problems for Puzzle Lovers, and The Language Lover’s Puzzle Book, and he is also the coauthor of the coloring books Patterns of the Universe and Visions of the Universe. He has launched an elliptical pool table, LOOP. He writes a popular-math blog and a puzzle blog for the Guardian, and he won the Association of British Science Writers award for best science blog in 2016. He lives in London.

Alex Palmer is a journalist and excavator of fascinating facts. He is the New York Times–bestselling author of The Santa Claus Man as well as three other books of surprising bits of history and science: Weird-o-Pedia, Alternative Facts, and Literary Miscellany. His writing has appeared in Lifehacker, Best Life, Mental Floss, Slate, Esquire, and many other outlets.

Alexander Kriss, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and author. He received his doctorate from The New School for Social Research and completed internship training at Columbia University Medical Center. In 2015, Dr. Kriss opened a private practice in New York City, where he provides psychoanalytic and existential psychotherapy to adolescents and adults dealing with a wide range of issues. He currently serves as an adjunct professor of psychology at the City College of New York and Fordham University, and as a clinical associate at the Safran Center for Psychological Services. Dr. Kriss’s writing has appeared in Kill Screen, Logic, and numerous academic books and journals. He is the recipient of a University in Exile Fellowship from The New School and a Scholar Award from the Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology. The Gaming Mind is his first book.

Founders of the London-based Mindfulness Project, Alexandra Frey and Autumn Totton are deeply motivated by the way the practice of mindfulness has changed and enriched their own lives and by the huge evidence base that shows it has the potential to do the same for many others. This is their second journal following I Am Here Now.

Alexandra Helm is a freelance illustrator and graphic designer based in Offenbach, Germany. She especially enjoys illustrating children’s books. My Big Wimmelbook—Good Night is her first Wimmelbook.

Ali Almossawi is an alumnus of MIT’s engineering systems division and Carnegie Mellon’s school of computer science. His books include An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments, An Illustrated Book of Loaded Language, and Bad Choices. His writing has appeared in publications such as Wired. He works and lives in San Francisco.

Ali Drucker is a freelance writer based in Los Angeles who covers sexual health and pop culture. She lives with her husband, temperamental cat, and moderately well-behaved dog. You can find her work in The New York Times, New York magazine, HuffPost, Refinery29, and more. She previously served as the sex and relationships senior editor at Maxim and Cosmo. When she’s not interviewing people about their sex lives, Ali enjoys loading up on SPF and going to the beach, taking easy hikes, and snuggling with her pets while watching old episodes of shows she’s seen a million times on Netflix.

Alice Hart—a graduate of Leiths School of Food and Wine and a longtime and accomplished food writer, food stylist, chef, and cookbook author—is a master at crafting seasonal vegetarian recipes, inspired by her travels around the world, that celebrate produce and other whole foods, as well as spices and herbs by the handful. The author of three previous cookbooks, her recipes and writing have appeared in The New York Times and many other outlets. Hart lives in the vegetarian-friendly seaside city of Brighton, in the UK.

Professor Alice Roberts is an academic, author, and broadcaster specializing in human anatomy, physiology, evolution, archaeology, and history. She is the author of more than ten science and history books, including Anatomical Oddities: The Otherworldly Realms Hidden within Our Bodies. In 2001, Roberts made her television debut on Channel 4’s Time Team, and went on to write and present The Incredible Human Journey, Origins of Us, and Ice Age Giants on BBC2. She is also the presenter of the popular TV series Digging for Britain. Roberts has been a Professor of Public Engagement with Science at the University of Birmingham since 2012.

Alicia C. Simpson, MS, RD, IBCLC, LD, is an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant and registered dietitian specializing in maternal and pediatric nutrition. The executive director and founder of the nonprofit Pea Pod Nutrition and Lactation Support, she provides nutrition and breastfeeding education to mothers. She has written three cookbooks, including Quick and Easy Vegan Comfort Food, and lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

Allison Hershey is a professional illustrator whose art has appeared in science fiction magazines and adventure games, including Inherit the Earth and Halls of the Dead: Faery Tale Adventures II.

Amanda Fields is an assistant professor of English and the Writing Center director at Central Connecticut State University. She has published creative work in Indiana Review, Brevity, So to Speak, Nashville Review, and others. She coedited Toward, Around, and Away from Tahrir: Tracking Emerging Expressions of Egyptian Identity, and has published scholarship in Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy; Journal of Adolescent Research; Sexuality Research and Social Policy; and edited collections. Among her honors is the 2016 Kairos Best Webtext Award. She holds a PhD in rhetoric and composition from the University of Arizona and an MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of Minnesota. Learn more at amandajfields.com or on Twitter at @aj_fields.

Amber Ankowski, PhD, teaches psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles, with a focus on children’s language and cognitive development and methods for conducting psychological research. Her work has been published in academic journals including Child Development Research, Infant and Child Development, and Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.

Together with her husband Andy, Amber blogs at doctoranddad.com, is coauthor of Think Like a Baby: 33 Simple Research Experiments You Can Do at Home to Better Understand Your Child’s Developing Mind and Goodnight Zoom, and is the parent of three fantastically ferocious bookmonsters. 

The American Macular Degeneration Foundation is a non-profit, publicly supported organization that works for the prevention, treatment, and cure of macular degeneration by raising public awareness and knowledge about the increasing threat of macular degeneration, providing support and advocacy for those affected with the disease and their families, and supporting scientific research.

Amy Myrdal Miller, MS, RDN, FAND, is an award-winning dietitian, farmer’s daughter, public speaker, author, and president of Farmer’s Daughter® Consulting, Inc., an agriculture, food, and culinary communications firm. Amy’s career highlights include working for Dole Food Company, the California Walnut Commission and California Walnut Board, and The Culinary Institute of America. A farmer’s daughter from North Dakota, today Amy and her husband Scott Miller live in Carmichael, California with “the interns” Violet Grey and Schroeder the Shredder.

Andrea Duclos is the creator of the popular lifestyle and cooking blog OhDearDrea. Named a top family blogger by both Apartment Therapy and Babble, she has been featured on Design Sponge, Disney Baby, and the documentary American Blogger, among numerous other media. She resides in West Palm Beach, Florida, with her husband and daughter, where they live as simply, naturally, and happily as possible.

Andreas Jopp is a medical journalist and bestselling author. His books have been translated into 14 languages. He has been giving stop-smoking workshops for over ten years. His program as presented here was first launched in Germany in November 2011 and has already helped countless smokers to quit cigarettes for good.

Andrew Bienkowski, a veteran of the U.S. Air Force who served in the Korean War, worked as a psychologist for 40 years, including 32 years for New York state, designing and implementing mental-health programs and working directly with patients. He lives near Buffalo, New York.

Andrew Ford is a composer, writer, and broadcaster who has won awards in each of those capacities. In 2014 he was a Poynter Fellow and visiting composer at Yale University, in 2015 visiting lecturer at the Shanghai Conservatory, and in 2018 HC Coombs Creative Arts Fellow at the Australian National University. Ford has written widely on all manner of music, published ten previous books, and has written, presented, and coproduced many radio series, mainly for Australia’s national radio.

Andrew Martin is surprisingly well qualified to write a housework guide for men. Not only is he a man himself, but he does a lot around the house. On purely humanitarian grounds he recently took over some of the ironing from his wife; he then branched out into cleaning the bathroom, fairly regular vacuuming, and doing the dishes after dinner (when he wasn’t going out). For the purposes of this book, Martin has interviewed many experts, and can thus provide answers to such burning questions as: Do I need to bother about the controls on the iron? Is dust actually dangerous? What’s all this stuff about hard and soft water? The result is a genuinely enlightening read, combining practical housework advice with touching recollections from the author’s Yorkshire childhood and hilarious scenes from the daily sit-com of family life. How to Get Things Really Flat will amuse and instruct any slobbish man forced at gunpoint to read it.

Andrew Roberts, an illustrator and animator, loves storytelling in all its forms. Andrew received his MFA in illustration from the School of Visual Arts in New York City and is now based in Portland, OR. You can find him online at AndrewDraws.com.

Andy Ankowski is an award-winning advertising creative director who specializes in explaining complex products and services in simple—and often laugh-out-loud funny—ways. He studied creative writing at the University of Notre Dame, and once wrote 365 poems about onion bagels in a single year. 
 
Together with his wife Amber, Andy blogs at doctoranddad.com, is coauthor of Think Like a Baby: 33 Simple Research Experiments You Can Do at Home to Better Understand Your Child’s Developing Mind and Goodnight Zoom, and is the parent of three fantastically ferocious bookmonsters.

Anja Røyne, PhD, is a scientist and lecturer in the department of physics at the University of Oslo. A physicist with a background in solar energy, Røyne has also researched geological and geochemical processes and is now working on creating materials with biotechnology. In addition, she runs her own science blog, has shared her expertise in newspaper and radio programs, and frequently gives popular science talks.

Anna Borges is a freelance writer, editor, and podcast producer who specializes in mental health and wellness. With over a decade of experience, she's held senior editorial positions at SELF, BuzzFeed, and more. When she's not writing, you'll probably find her at home in Brooklyn, NY, hanging out with her cats and making sure everyone in the group chat is practicing self-care. The More or Less Definitive Guide to Self-Care is her first book.

Anna Mehler Paperny is a Toronto-based reporter for Reuters. She’s chased down stories ranging from the opioid crisis to migration, from post-quake Haiti to Guantanamo Bay. She has also been a staff reporter at The Globe and Mail and a reporter-editor for Global News, where she developed globalnews.ca’s award-winning Investigative Data Desk. Her work on Canadian prison deaths won the RTDNA Dan McArthur Award for investigative journalism.

Anne Kissack, MPH, RD, is a public health practitioner in chronic disease prevention and management. She has always had a passion for cooking and for sharing this love with others. She resides in Wisconsin with her husband and two children.

Anthony Warner is a trained scientist turned professional chef and regular contributor to New Scientist and the Sunday Times. He lives in Nottinghamshire, England.

Armando Siqueiros, MD, is the coach of Cal Poly Distance Club and has been named USA Track & Field 2009 National Developmental Coach of the Year.

Arto der Haroutunian (1940–1987) was a restaurateur, painter, translator, and author of 12 cookbooks. He also composed music and translated Turkish, Arab, Persian, and Armenian authors.

Ayano Usamura is a Japanese illustrator. She began her career as a freelance illustrator at age 17, specializing in simple lifestyle drawing. Usamura’s career took off when her illustrations using LAMY Safari pens were featured in the company’s Japanese-language newsletter, LAMY Sketch. She runs a graphic design studio with her husband and works as an art director, advising clients on visuals for social media and promotional campaigns.

B. Brett Finlay, PhD, studies how microbes cause disease in people and how we can fight infections, as well as the role the microbiota plays in human health and disease, including asthma, Parkinson’s, and malnutrition. He is the coauthor of the book Let Them Eat Dirt and the author of over 600 publications in peer-reviewed journals. He is also an Officer of the Order of Canada, and a jazz sax player, skier, and beekeeper in his spare time.

Barry Falls grew up in rural Northern Ireland, where he spent a lot of time drawing pictures and writing stories to go with them. He is a commercial illustrator who has received multiple awards for his work with clients such as The New York Times, American Airlines, and The Telegraph. He has written and illustrated two other books for children, It’s Your World Now! and Alone!

Bart van Olphen is the cofounder of fish brand Sea Tales and author of Veggies & Fish, The Tinned Fish Cookbook, and Bart’s Fish Tales, the 2018 Gourmand World Cookbook Award winner for Best Fish and Seafood Cookbook. Bon Appétit has praised Bart and Sea Tales for the company’s commitment to sustainability, naming Sea Tales canned tuna their all-around favorite in 2024. Sea Tales tinned fish is now available in stores throughout the US. Visit Bart at bartvanolphen.com and sea-tales.com.

Bastian Berbner has reported portions of this book on This American Life; other outlets that have already featured this book include David Byrne’s newsletter “Reasons to Be Cheerful” and The Guardian. A reporter for the German newspaper Die Zeit, Berbner hosts the podcast 180 Grad (“180 Degrees”), where he first developed many of the stories in this book. He has been honored with some of the most prestigious journalism awards in Germany, where he lives.

Ben Miller, a trained quantum physicist, is an actor and comedian, perhaps best known for his role as the sidekick in Johnny English. He is also the bestselling author of It’s Not Rocket Science, and host of the TV show of the same name. He has hosted numerous other TV and radio documentaries on subjects as varied as temperature and the history of particle physics. He is slowly coming to terms with the idea that he may never be an astronaut.

Benjamin von Brackel is a renowned environmental journalist whose reporting on climate change has appeared in Süddeutsche Zeitung, Die Zeit, and Natur. He is the cofounder of Klimareporter°, an Environmental Media Prize-winning online magazine dedicated to the climate emergency, and coauthor of Angry Weather: Heat Waves, Floods, Storms, and the New Science of Climate Change. He is based in Berlin, Germany.

Bill Turnbull is the award-winning longtime co-host of BBC Breakfast, Britain’s most-watched morning TV show. A career journalist, he has reported from more than 30 countries, and for four years was the BBC News foreign correspondent in Washington, DC. He is President of the Institute of Northern Ireland Beekeepers and a public ambassador for the British Beekeepers’ Association.

In 2014, Billy Bean was appointed Major League Baseball’s first Ambassador for Inclusion, in which role he is at the fore of the League’s efforts for a fair and equitable workplace throughout all of baseball. He maintains a blog at MLB.com.

Bill Bryson is the New York Times–bestselling author of several books.

Bob Deans, author of the 2007 book The River Where America Began: A Journey Along the James, was the chief Asia correspondent for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and other Cox newspapers, and for eight years covered the White House.

Bob Holtzman has written about outdoor sports for 25 years. A former editor for International Marine and Ragged Mountain Press, he is the author of The Camping Bible, Wilderness Survival Skills, and a series of boating books for children. He is the president of Mythic Gear, which produces drysuits for boating and paddlesports. Holtzman lives in Maine, where he enjoys canoeing, camping, hiking, and writing the blog Indigenous Boats.

Bradford C. Berk, MD, PhD, is a board-certified cardiologist and a Distinguished University Professor in Medicine, Neurology, Pathology, Pharmacology & Physiology, and Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. He is the founder and Director of the University of Rochester Neurorestoration Institute. He was formerly Chief of the Cardiology Division at the University of Rochester Medical Center, and then Chairman of Medicine, before being named CEO of University of Rochester Medical Center and Senior Vice President of Health Sciences at the University of Rochester. In 2021 he was named one of City & State New York’s Life Sciences Power 50 for cofounding NeuroCuresNY, a clinical trials network that uses robotic technology to measure the effect of drugs on recovery from paralysis. He lives in Pittsford, New York.

Brian Bolles has been making drinks professionally for fifteen years. In his free time he plays bike polo, Dungeons & Dragons, and Jeopardy!; he’s never met a puzzle he didn’t like. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife and two cats.

Brian Rea draws and paints for books, magazines, fashion, and film. He illustrates the longstanding New York Times column Modern Love, teaches at the ArtCenter College of Design, and exhibits his artwork worldwide. His book Death Wins a Goldfish imagines the title character on a much-needed vacation. He lives in Los Angeles.

Britt Wray is a writer and researcher on the emotional and psychological impacts of the climate crisis and is the Director of Stanford Medicine’s Special Initiative on Climate Change and Mental Health. Wray is also the author of Rise of the Necrofauna: The Science, Ethics and Risks of De-Extinction. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Washington Post, Guardian, and Globe and Mail, among other publications. She speaks widely on the mental health consequences of ecological disruption, has hosted several podcasts, radio, and TV programs with the BBC and CBC, and is the creator of Gen Dread, a newsletter about staying sane in the climate crisis: gendread.substack.com.

Bruce Benamran is a YouTube personality whose popular science channels e–penser (in French) and Get It (in English) have over a million subscribers. Benamran holds a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Strasbourg. Already an international bestseller, How to Speak Science is his first book. @getitchannel

Carla Kelly is an experienced cook and baker, having started well before the age of ten. As the eldest of five children, she often made baked treats and dinner for her family. She has been a vegan for over five years and a vegetarian for fifteen more before that, and has developed recipes to suit herself and her family on this journey. She writes the popular blog The Year of the Vegan and lives in British Columbia with her family.

Carol Bowen Ball is a professional bariatric cook, having undergone weight loss surgery ten years ago. She helps those who have had (or are considering) weight loss surgery to achieve long-lasting success with flavorful recipes and expert lifestyle advice. She has written over ninety cookbooks on a variety of subjects, from barbecue to range-style cooking. She lives in Camberley, England.

Carol Clements has more than 40 years of experience as a personal trainer and currently works with older populations. She is an ambassador for the National Osteoporosis Foundation (NOF), the leading health organization dedicated to promoting strong bones for life. Clements holds a BS and MA in dance therapy, performs and choreographs modern dance, and teaches dance and yoga. She lives in New York.

Carol J. Adams is the author of the pioneering The Sexual Politics of Meat, called a “vegan bible” by The New York Times and now in a twentieth-anniversary edition, plus more than twenty other books and over one hundred articles. She frequently speaks on college campuses. She is working on a memoir about her decade as a caregiver. She lives near Dallas, Texas, with her partner and their two rescued dog companions, Holly and Inky.

Carole Kramer Arsenault, RN, IBCLC, has devoted her career to infant and pregnancy care, and she has worked for many years as a delivery nurse, including at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She founded and runs Boston Baby Nurse & Nanny, a home health agency offering specialized support to families with babies.

Carolin Görtler is a Germany-based designer and illustrator with over ten years’ experience illustrating children’s books, many of which are Wimmelbooks. She studied communication design at the University of Applied Sciences in Mainz.

Caroline Foran is a number-one international bestselling author, motivational speaker, freelance lifestyle journalist, and cofounder of digital publishing venture GAFFInteriors.ie. She is the author of Own It.: Make Your Anxiety Work for You and You Got This: Face Your Fear, Find Your Confidence, and the host of Owning It: The Anxiety Podcast. She lives in Dublin with her husband, Barry.

Carolyn Williams, PhD, RD, is a registered dietitian and journalist who makes healthy eating simple. She’s the author of Meals That Heal Cookbook and is a recipient of the 2017 James Beard Journalism Award. Carolyn serves as contributing editor for Cooking Light and Eating Well, and her work has been featured in Real Simple and Health. She lives in Alabama.

Carrie Hope Fletcher is an actress, singer, vlogger and, thanks to her popular YouTube channel ItsWayPastMyBedTime, “honorary big sister” to hundreds of thousands of young people around the world. The videos she creates—on topics as diverse as exam stress, handling school bullies, and how to pee in a onesie—have been viewed more than fifty million times. Carrie has played the role of Éponine in Les Misérables at the Queen’s Theatre in London’s West End since June 2013 and received the 2014 WhatsOnStage Award for Best Takeover in a Role. She lives just outside of London.

Caryad graduated with a diploma in design from the Glasfachschule in Rheinbach, Germany and has been a freelance illustrator since 1993. She has illustrated for numerous roleplaying, board and card games, children’s books, puzzles, novels and nonfiction books. Her charming and humorous illustrations can be found in the many wimmelbooks she creates.

Casey Crosbie, RD, CEDS-S, owns Crosbie Nutrition, a California-based private practice offering individual and family work as well as professional supervision and community outreach. She is the coauthor of How to Nourish Your Child Through an Eating Disorder. Her work has also been published in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.

Wendy Sterling, MS, RD, CEDS-S, CSSD, specializes in eating disorders and sports nutrition. She is the co-author of How to Nourish Your Child Through an Eating Disorder, Raising Body Positive Teens, and No Weigh! Her work has also been published in the International Journal of Eating Disorders. She maintains a private practice in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Catherine Jones is an award-winning cookbook author, app developer, and blogger on the Calories In, Calories Out website. She has written numerous cookbooks, including Eating for Pregnancy with Rose Ann Hudson, RD, LD, and Eating for Lower Cholesterol with Elaine Trujillo, MS, RDN. She is the founder of the nonprofit Share Your Calories, created to build the first-ever weight-loss app with a social-giving component. She promotes calorie awareness, energy balance, and wellness at every opportunity. Catherine lives with her family in Bethesda, MD. She is a graduate of Connecticut College and La Varenne Culinary School in France.

Chad Hyatt is an expert forager and classically trained chef who has made a name for himself in northern California and beyond, sharing his delicious spin on wild mushroom cookery. He has cooked in a variety of restaurants and private clubs around the San Francisco Bay area, where he can often be found foraging for mushrooms, putting on wild mushroom-themed dinners, teaching mushroom-related classes, and attending mushroom festivals. He is passionate about cooking approachable comfort food based on local, seasonal ingredients, and, of course, wild mushrooms.

Chamisa Kellogg is an illustrator based in Portland, Oregon. She has created artwork for children’s books, brands, games, and animation. See more of Chamisa’s work at chamisakellogg.com.

Charity O’Reilly, LPC, is a licensed professional counselor specializing in trauma therapy. She provides intensive trauma therapy for trauma survivors and trains and consults with therapists on trauma-informed practice. She is certified in eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy, trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TF-CBT), and trauma processing yoga.

Cheynese Khachame is a vegan influencer living in France, whose love of noodles is limitless. She showcases her delicious Asian-inspired recipes on TikTok and Instagram as @chey___nese.

Chris Baréz-Brown is a renowned speaker and bestselling author in the world of creative thinking and well-being. He founded his consultancy, Upping Your Elvis, to challenge businesses to embed a dynamic creative culture within their company ethos. Brands such as Nike, Coca-Cola, Diageo, Unilever, Sony and WPP come back time and again for his unique, energetic, yet laid-back approach. Described as “a long-haired, twinkly-eyed cross between Richard Branson and a wizard” (Guardian), Chris is a master of transformation and brings out the potential in everybody. His work has been featured in media such as the Harvard Business Review, Fast Company and the BBC. Chris has a monthly column in GQ and lives in Dorset, England, with his family, a sea view, his beloved thirty-five-year-old Land Rover and a selection of paddleboards and guitars.

Chris Bull is cofounder of Gay Cities: Your Travel and City Guide and editorial director of Queerty, the most popular LGBT blog in the world.

Christian Serrer is a student at the University of Friedrichshafen, Germany. With This Is Climate Change, he and coauthor David Nelles hope to explain in as comprehensible a way as possible the causes and consequences of climate change, and to inspire even more people around the world to prioritize environmental and climate protection.

Christiane Wolf, MD, PhD is a physician turned mindfulness and compassion teacher and a senior teacher at InsightLA (InsightLA.org) in Los Angeles, California. She trains teachers and teaches Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Mindful Self-Compassion to groups and individuals in the US and across Europe. With her medical background, one of her specialties is working with people who suffer from chronic illness and pain. Dr. Wolf is a lead teacher and program developer for the nationwide mindfulness facilitator training for the US veterans Administration.

Dr. Wolf is also a Buddhist teacher in the vipassana (Insight) meditation tradition and has received teacher transmission from Trudy Goodman and Jack Kornfield. She is the coauthor, with Greg Serpa, of A Clinician’s Guide to Teaching Mindfulness. Dr. Wolf lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their three children.

Christine Toomey is an award-winning journalist and author who has reported from over sixty countries worldwide. Speaking five languages, she has covered foreign affairs for the Sunday Times for more than twenty years, and her journalism has been syndicated globally. Previously based as a correspondent in Mexico City, Paris, Berlin, and elsewhere, she has twice won Amnesty International Awards for Magazine Story of the Year. She divides her time between London and a small medieval town in the Apennines of central Italy.

Christopher Gary Packham CBE is an English naturalist, nature photographer, television presenter, and author.

A California native, Claire Ptak worked as a pastry chef for Alice Waters at Chez Panisse in Berkeley before moving to London and opening Violet Bakery in 2010. In 2019 she created a lemon elderflower cake for the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding. Ptak is also the author of The Violet Bakery Cookbook and Love Is a Pink Cake.

Clare Liardet loves to gather her friends and family together to enjoy the simple pleasures of eating and drinking. She has worked in the food world for many years, first cooking in museums, then in one of the first gastropubs in the UK, and, most recently, opening The Talbot Inn in Somerset with her husband. She runs Kitchen Table Cookery, which emphasizes the importance of experimenting with flavors and eating with the seasons.

Clare Llewellyn, PhD, is a chartered psychologist and associate professor of obesity at University College London, where she leads the Obesity Research Group and the Gemini twin study. In 2011 she completed her PhD at UCL on the nature and nurture of eating behavior and weight in early life and she has a long-standing fascination with the topic, which probably stems from having been a notoriously fussy eater as a child. A decade ago she helped establish Gemini, the largest twin study ever set up to explore the nature and nurture of eating behavior from the beginning of life. She has published nearly 100 scientific papers, articles and book chapters on this topic and has given over sixty invited talks worldwide at international organizations, such as the American Dietetic Association, the UK Royal Society of Medicine and the European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition. She lives in London with her partner, Andy.

Claudia Lieb studied communication design in Münster and at the University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg. She lives in Munich, where she works in a studio cooperative as an illustrator and graphic artist.

Claudia Shwide-Slavin, MS, RD, CDE, has been a registered dietitian and a certified diabetes educator for over 20 years. She runs a clinical private practice in New York City, prior to which she set up and coordinated three diabetes centers in the NYC area. Her writing on diabetes and sweeteners has appeared in various peer-reviewed journals.

Colette Martin is a food allergy mom and an expert on how to bake allergen-free. When her son was diagnosed with multiple food allergies, she had to re-invent how her family ate. Having first learned to bake in her grandmother’s kitchen with wheat, butter, milk, and eggs, Colette understands firsthand what it means to transform a kitchen to accommodate multiple food allergies.

Colin Jones is Emeritus Professor of History at Queen Mary University of London and visiting professor at the University of Chicago. He is a fellow of the British Academy, former president of the Royal Historical Society, and officier in the Ordre des Palmes académiques. He is the author and editor of many works on French history, including The Cambridge Illustrated History of France, The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon, Paris: Biography of a City (awarded the Enid MacLeod Prize of the Franco-British Society), The Smile Revolution in 18th-Century Paris, Versailles, and The Fall of Robespierre: 24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris.

Corlette Douglas loves creating whimsical, fun, and adventurous images of POC kids and silly animals. She knew from a very young age that all she ever wanted to do was draw, so she dedicated herself to getting better and better and building a unique style that delivers a “blast of colors and fun chaos” on every page. Corlette is a born-and-raised resident of Brooklyn, NY.

Dan Davies is a journalist and investment bank analyst. The author of Lying for Money, he has written for publications including The New Yorker and the Financial Times.

Dan Formosa, PhD, spent his grammar school years in Hoboken, NJ, the site of baseball’s first recorded game. A consultant to a wide range of companies and organizations, he has received numerous design awards. He also helped create the Masters in Branding Program at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Dan travels the world frequently in his work. He spends the rest of his time in Piermont, NY, and in New York City—virtually within throwing distance of Hoboken’s old Elysian Fields. He grew up playing stoopball and is a diehard Yankees fan.

Naturalist and wilderness adventurer Daniel Hume has traveled to the world’s remotest corners to learn fire making from the living masters of time–honored techniques—some of them nearly forgotten. Hume is also an instructor at Ray Mears, the Woodlore School of Wilderness Buschcraft, a premier outdoor survival school in his native England.

Daniel J. Siegel is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine and director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center at UCLA. He is the author of many New York Times–bestselling books.

Daniel Tammet is the subject of the award-winning TV documentary The Boy with the Incredible Brain, as well as a BBC Radio 4 documentary and the Kate Bush song “Pi.” He is the author of ten books, including the global bestseller Born on a Blue Day. His writing has appeared in Esquire, the Times Literary Supplement, and Guardian, and his books have been translated into thirty languages. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2012 and awarded an honorary doctorate by his alma mater, The Open University, in 2023. Daniel Tammet lives in Paris.

Danna Staaf earned a PhD in biology from Stanford University with her studies of baby squid. She is the author of Monarchs of the Sea and The Lady and the Octopus, and she has written for Science, Atlas Obscura, and Nautilus. She lives in California with her human family, a cat, and a garden full of grubs, caterpillars, maggots, and innumerable other babies.

Dara McAnulty is an award-winning author and conservationist with autism. At 16, he won the 2020 Wainwright Prize for his memoir, Diary of a Young Naturalist. He received a British Empire Medal for services to nature and the autistic community in 2023.

Dario Bressanini, PhD, is a chemist, science communicator, and YouTuber. He is a professor at the Department of Science and High Technology of the University of Insubria in Como, Italy, where he teaches and conducts research. In his home country, Bressanini has a large social media following and has published several bestselling books about the science of everyday things. He also writes monthly articles about chemistry in the kitchen for the Italian edition of Scientific American (Le Scienze).

Daryl Van Tongeren, PhD, is an associate professor of psychology at Hope College and associate editor of the Journal of Positive Psychology.
His research has been covered by The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Chicago Tribune, among other media outlets. He lives in
Holland, Michigan.

David Baker is a history and science writer who holds the world’s first PhD in Big History (the field that explores patterns in deep time and across the natural and social sciences). He is an award-winning lecturer, has written educational videos seen by millions of people, and is the author of The Shortest History of Our Universe. He lives in Tropical North Queensland, Australia.

David Michie, PhD, is the internationally published author of Buddhism for Busy People, Hurry Up and Meditate, and numerous other books, including a successful series of novels featuring the Dalai Lama’s cat. He is a meditation coach to both secular and Buddhist audiences, and a cofounder of Organisational Mindfulness, which caters to the corporate sector. Michie holds a doctorate in Communications Strategy.

David Nelles is a student at the University of Friedrichshafen, Germany. With This Is Climate Change, he and coauthor Christian Serrer hope to explain in as comprehensible a way as possible the causes and consequences of climate change, and to inspire even more people around the world to prioritize environmental and climate protection.

Journalist David Oliver Relin (1962–2012) was a recipient of the Kiriyama Prize and a James A. Michener Fellowship. He coauthored the #1 New York Times bestseller Three Cups of Tea.

Dr. David Robert Grimes is a physicist, cancer researcher and science journalist. Born in Dublin in 1985, he is affiliated with Dublin City University and University of Oxford. He contributes to both the BBC and RTE discussing science, politics and media and has contributed to The Guardian, The Irish Times, the BBC, PBS, and The New York Times, among others. He also advises on science policy, and was joint recipient of the 2014 Nature/Sense about Science Maddox Prize for Standing Up for Science.

David Barrie, a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation, has sailed all over the world and made many long passages. He is a series consultant for the National Geographic channel series, “Incredible Animal Journeys.” After studying experimental psychology and philosophy at Oxford University, he served in the British Diplomatic Service, then worked in the arts and as a law-reform campaigner. His book Sextant was shortlisted for the Mountbatten Literary Award and won the Royal Institute of Navigation’s Certificate of Achievement. The great-great-nephew of J. M. Barrie, he is married with two daughters. Learn more at davidbarrieauthor.org.

Debra Whitman is AARP’s chief public policy officer. An economist, expert on aging issues, and author of the forthcoming book The Second Fifty: Answers to the 7 Big Questions of Midlife and Beyond, she leads her team in all aspects of policy development, analysis, research, and global thought leadership to help communities, lawmakers, and the private sector improve our lives as we age.

Del Sroufe, who contributed recipes to the first Forks Over Knives book, is chef and co-owner of Wellness Forum Foods, a plant-based meal delivery and catering company that offers healthy, minimally processed foods. He also regularly teaches cooking classes, and has worked in vegan and vegetarian kitchens for 22 years. He lives and works in Columbus, Ohio.

American-born cartoonist and illustrator Denise Dorrance worked in magazines in New York for twelve years (including at Cosmopolitan under Helen Gurley Brown) before moving to London in 1993. Her cartoons have run for decades in many publications, including the Mail on Sunday (UK). Polar Vortex is her first graphic novel. In the UK, it was shortlisted for the 2020 Myriad First Graphic Novel competition and won the LDComics 2020 Rosalind B. Penfold Prize.

Diana von Kopp is a psychologist fascinated by the fact that food has an immense impact on our brain, performance, and well-being. She dove into research and has been writing for Food Affair ever since.

Diane Borsato is an award-winning artist exhibited in galleries and museums internationally. An associate professor at the University of Guelph in Ontario, she teaches advanced courses in experimental studio.

Diane Ehrensaft, PhD, is a developmental and clinical psychologist, the author of The Gender Creative Child and Gender Born, Gender Made, and coauthor, with Michelle Jurkiewicz, of Gender Explained. At the University of California, San Francisco, she is the cofounder and director of mental health at the Child and Adolescent Gender Center and a professor of pediatrics. She has been featured on the Los Angeles Times online and WIRED online and has appeared on Anderson Live, The Oprah Winfrey Show, and the Today Show.

Diane Landy is a writer and longtime volunteer for writing projects in elementary and preschool classrooms. She lives in Santa Cruz, CA, with her husband and two empty nests for daughters away in college.

Douglas L. Sisterson is a senior manager at Argonne National Laboratory for the US Department of Energy’s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Climate Research Facility.

Dr. Suhas Kshirsagar, BAMS, MD (Ayurveda), is a world-renowned educator, the director of the Ayurvedic Healing and Integrative Wellness Clinic, and author of The Hot Belly Diet.

Ed Ayres has been running competitively for fifty-five consecutive years, and he enjoys it as much now as he did when he joined his high school cross-country team in 1956. Ayres placed third in the first New York Marathon in 1970, and he is the only runner of that race still competing today. Having participated in the early growth of American interest in roadrunning, trail-running, and marathons, he also became one of the pioneers of ultrarunning. He placed third in the US 50 Mile championship in 1976 (in 5:46:52), first in the JFK 50 Mile in 1977, and first in four US national age-division championships at 50K road, 50K trail, and fifty miles. He was the founding editor and publisher of Running Times magazine, now published by Runner’s World parent Rodale Press. He also worked for thirteen years as the editorial director of the Worldwatch Institute. He lives in Green Valley, California.

Eddie Woo is the head mathematics teacher at Cherrybrook Technology High School in Sydney, Australia. He has been teaching mathematics for more than ten years. In 2012, Eddie started recording his lessons and uploading them to YouTube—creating “Wootube.” Since then, he has amassed a following of more than 600,000 subscribers, and his videos have been viewed more than 33 million times. In 2018, Eddie received Australia’s Local Hero Award and was named one of the top ten teachers in the world as a finalist for the Global Teacher Prize.

Edgardo J. Menvielle, MD, MSHS, is the director of the Gender and Sexuality Development Program and of the Gender and Sexuality Advocacy and Education Program in the Psychiatry Department of the Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. He started a national outreach group for parents of gender-variant children in 1998, and later a gender and sexuality development clinic. He is also an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at The George Washington University. An internationally recognized authority on childhood and adolescent gender and sexuality, Dr. Menvielle has been quoted in The New York Times and Newsweek. He lives in Washington, D.C.

Edmund Harriss is a mathematician, artist, and assistant professor at the University of Arkansas. He is the discoverer of the Harriss spiral and the creator of the construction toy Curvahedra. He is the coauthor of Hello Numbers, What Can You Do? and the coauthor and illustrator of two mathematical coloring books: Patterns of the Universe and Visions of the Universe. He lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

Eileen Garvin lives in Oregon. Her debut novel, The Music of Bees, was published in 2021 and was a national bestseller. Crow Talk, her second novel, publishing in April 2024, has been named one of the Most Anticipated Books of 2024 by Zibby Mag.

Elaine Trujillo, MS, RDN, is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and works at the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health. She is passionate about nutrition and its role in health promotion. She uses a variety of approaches to share her views and findings about nutrition, including co-authoring, with Catherine Jones, The Calories In, Calories Out Cookbook and Eating for Lower Cholesterol. In addition to authoring the textbook, Nutritional Support in the Care of the Critically Ill, she has written various nutritional science-related journal articles and book chapters. She received a BS degree from the University of Delaware, and a MS at Texas Woman’s University. She is Past Chair of the Oncology Nutrition Dietetic Practice Group of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, and in 2013 co-edited the book, Oncology Nutrition for Clinical Practice. She formerly served as Chair of Education and Research for the Maryland Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. She and her husband live in Maryland. She has two children in college.

Elaine Perry, PhD, is professor emeritus of neuroscience at Newcastle University and founder of Dilston Physic Garden.

Eli Grober is an American satirist. He is a longtime humor contributor to The New Yorker and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and has authored some of their most-read humor pieces. He writes the weekly satirical newsletter Here’s Something, and he is a former staff writer for The Tonight Show.

Elizabeth D. Riesz, PhD, (1937–2019) was the mother of Sarah—a young adult with Down syndrome—and the original mastermind behind this book. Elizabeth enjoyed a long career in education, including public school curriculum development, teacher education, and university program administration.

Elizabeth Kolbert has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1999. Her journalism has garnered multiple awards, including a 2006 National Academies Communication Award for her three-part series “The Climate of Man,” which investigated the consequences of disappearing ice on the planet. She is author of The Prophet of Love, Field Notes from a Catastrophe, and The Sixth Extinction, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction in 2015. She received the Blake-Dodd Prize, from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, in 2017.

Ellen Polishuk is a first-generation sustainable vegetable farmer. Formerly an owner of Potomac Vegetable Farms, she is a sought-after farm consultant and conference speaker.

Emily Suñez is a visual artist living in Pasadena, California. She received a BA in psychology from the College of William & Mary and an MA in teaching from New York University. After being diagnosed with an autoimmune disease, Suñez left her career in classroom teaching and redesigned her life to manage her symptoms. She has become an advocate for others battling chronic illness, and she founded a local support group for those with POTS and other forms of dysautonomia.
Suñez is a nature oil and watercolor painter and has used art as a tool for healing. Her award-winning paintings have been featured in CandyFloss magazine, as well as Brea Gallery, Palos Verdes Art Center, TAG Gallery, and the Joshua Tree National Park Art Exposition.

London artist Emma Block creates hand-painted editorial illustrations for brands and publications; teaches watercolor, gouache, and brush lettering workshops; and runs a popular Etsy storefront. Her work is inspired by old photos and films, vintage clothing, travel, 1950s illustration, 1930s jazz, and sausage dogs. She is also the author of The Joy of Watercolor.

Emma Farrarons is an illustrator and book designer. Born on the island of Cebu in the Philippines, Emma grew up in Paris. She was trained in illustration at the Edinburgh College of Art and École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs. She completed a textile and printmaking course at Capellagården—School of Craft and Design in Sweden and has a particular love of pattern and fabric print. When she is not making art, Emma enjoys sewing and knitting her own clothes, going on long walks, or crafting with her children. She lives in London with her family.

Eric Harrison was born in Wellington, New Zealand, in 1949. He graduated from Victoria University with a BA in English literature and music, and started his working life as a schoolteacher and journalist. Between 1974 and 1985 he spent a total of 18 months doing retreats in the Burmese, Tibetan, Zen, and yoga traditions. While he appreciated the opportunities to do long retreats, he found he had no appetite for Buddhism itself.

When Eric opened the Perth Meditation Centre in 1987, he chose to use secular, rational, and science-based language to explain meditation. He later supplemented his knowledge with five years’ study in biology, cognitive science, and Western philosophy. This approach made his work acceptable to the many doctors and psychologists who referred clients to him, and to corporations that have employed him since. He has now taught 30,000 people how to meditate, and his previous six books, including Teach Yourself to Meditate and The 5-Minute Meditator, have been translated into 14 languages.

Eric Topol, MD, is the director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute and co-founder and vice-chairman of the West Wireless Health Institute in La Jolla, California. He is a practicing cardiologist at the Scripps Clinic and a professor of genomics at The Scripps Research Institute. One of the top ten most cited researchers in medicine, Topol was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and has led many of the trials that have shaped contemporary treatment for heart disease. He lives in La Jolla, California.

Erik L. Peterson, PhD, is Associate Provost and Associate Professor of the History of Science & Medicine at The University of Alabama. He publishes and teaches about the historical relationship between race and science in the United States and abroad.

Eva Holland is a correspondent for Outside magazine, and a former editor at Up Here, the magazine of Canada’s far north. Her work has also appeared in Esquire, Wired, Bloomberg, Pacific Standard, AFAR, Smithsonian, Grantland, Seattle Met, National Geographic News, and many other outlets. Her work has been nominated for a Canadian National Magazine Award, anthologized in The Best American Science and Nature Writing, The Best Women’s Travel Writing, and Best Canadian Sports Writing, and listed among the notable selections in multiple editions of The Best American Essays, The Best American Sports Writing, and The Best American Travel Writing. She lives in Canada’s Yukon Territory.

Evan Fowler is a writer and researcher focusing on Hong Kong and China affairs.

EVELINE HELMINK is a licensed coach practitioner, working one-on-one with clients on themes such as grief, change, and acceptance. She is also a journalist, magazine editor, and the author of The Handbook for Bad Days.She works as an editor in chief at the international media brand Happinez, which shares insights and inspiration for personal growth and a meaningful life. Her mother lives with dementia. She lives in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Fabio Pastori first learned the power of visual art in advertising, crafting memorable and persuasive ad campaigns no matter the slogan. In the 1980s, he adapted the hallmarks of his style—dynamic perspectives, extreme three-dimensionality, and vivid colors—to create an entirely new way to represent dinosaurs. His work would prove to be ahead of its time; in light of the latest science, researchers are now confirming the validity of Fabio’s early drawings. He remains a highly regarded paleoartist today, known for his sharp eye in depicting cutting-edge discoveries.

Felicity Evans is the alchemist and founder at Imbibe Living. Her company crafts a range of sparkling probiotic water kefirs and offers cultures on the website imbibeliving.com. She’s created an online course providing you the tools and techniques to confidently ferment your own probiotic drinks at home.

Fiona Carns runs one of the leading catering services in Melbourne, Australia. Her passion for healthy food and concern about the dietary effects of highly processed foods has inspired her to write two cookbooks, including Low Carb High Flavor Made Easy. She lives in Melbourne with her husband and three children.

Fiona Lowenstein is an award-winning journalist, producer, speaker, and the founder of Body Politic, a grassroots patient-led health justice organization. Lowenstein was hospitalized for COVID-19 in March 2020 and went on to found the Body Politic COVID-19 Support Group, which offers support and resources to over eleven thousand people living with COVID-19 around the world. They live in Los Angeles.

Florian Freistetter is an astronomer, author, columnist, blog­ger, and podcaster. Born in 1977, he studied astronomy at the University of Vienna. In 2008, he launched the astronomy blog Astrodicticum Simplex, one of the most widely read science blogs in German. His podcast, Sternengeschichten (“Star Stories”), is one of the most successful German-language science podcasts. His books include Der Komet im Cocktailglass (“The Comet in a Cocktail Glass,” 2013), which was awarded the Austrian Science Book of the Year prize in 2014; Isaac Newton: The Asshole Who Reinvented the Universe; and most recently, Stephen Hawking: His Science in a Nutshell, among many others. In 2015, he became a permanent member of the Austrian “scientific cabaret,” Science Busters. In 2013, the asteroid 2007 HT3 was officially desig­nated 243073 Freistetter by the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union.

Forrest Pritchard is the New York Times—bestselling author of Gaining Ground and Growing Tomorrow. He is also a full-time organic livestock farmer and seventh-generation producer.

In “deep middle age,” Frances Edmonds swapped the comfort and security of her London life for a year in California, as a fellow at Stanford’s Distinguished Careers Institute, where she researched longevity and related issues at the Center on Longevity. An award-winning speaker and bestselling author, Edmonds divides her time between London and the South of France.

François Savatier is a journalist for the magazine Pour la Science (the French edition of Scientific American), where he focuses on the science of the past. He is the co-author of A Pocket History of Human Evolution and The Secret World of Denisovans.

Fumiaki Shingu was born in Fukuoka, Japan, in 1953. He moved to Tokyo after graduating from design school, and he founded a graphic design company in 1984. His origami kits have been sold in Toys“R”Us and other major outlets in Japan. He is also the author of The Ultimate Book of Origami Animals.

Gail Vaz-Oxlade has been a personal-finance writer and columnist for 25 years, following a career working for financial-services companies. She delivers her no-nonsense approach to money management as host of the television show Til Debt Do Us Part, which airs in the US on CNBC, as well as in more than 30 other countries, reaching millions of viewers each week.

Gene Stone is the author of the international bestseller The Secrets of People Who Never Get Sick and the coauthor, with Rip Esselstyn, of The Engine 2 Diet. Stone, who has written or ghostwritten more than thirty books and numerous magazine articles, lives in New York and follows a plant-based diet.

Georgia McDermott is a food stylist and photographer, recipe developer, blogger, content creator, and social media manager. She writes, cooks, and photographs gluten-free, FODMAP-friendly, pescatarian recipes on her blog, georgeats.com, and on Instagram @georgeats.

Gila Pfeffer is a Jewish American writer and humorist. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, Today.com, and elsewhere. Gila’s monthly “Feel It on the First” campaign reminds women to prioritize their breast health. She splits her time between New York City and London.

Gill Rapley, PhD, is known worldwide as the pioneer of baby-led weaning and is coauthor of the category-leading book series. She lives in Kent, England.

Gillian Turner is a senior lecturer in physics and geophysics at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand. The winner of numerous awards for excellence in teaching and science communication, Turner has published over fifty articles in scientific journals.

Ginevra Reiff was born with a deep love and appreciation of the culinary arts. She has focused her talents as a professional bartender, crafting unique cocktails with an eye toward classic technique while also creating a holistic and fun experience for the customers imbibing her creations.

Grace Easton is an author and illustrator who studied illustration at Central Saint Martins, Brighton University, and Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Her debut picture book is Cannonball Coralie and the Lion. She’s currently based in St. Albans, England.

Gregory Lopez is a practicing secular Buddhist and Stoic, founder of the New York City Stoics, cofounder and board member of the Stoic Fellowship, cohost of Stoic Camp New York, and on the team at the Modern Stoicism organization. He has published essays on Stoicism in the Stoicism Today blog and in The Philosophers’ Magazine. He is the coauthor with Massimo Pigliucci of A Handbook for New Stoics.

London-based Gwynne Dyer is an admired journalist, columnist, broadcaster, and lecturer on international affairs. His documentary television series on the history of war was nominated for an Academy Award; his twice-weekly column on international affairs appears in 175 newspapers in 45 countries and is translated into more than a dozen languages.

Gyan Yankovich has spent the last 12 years writing content to help women better their relationships with themselves, the world, and the people around them. She has worked as a Senior Lifestyle Editor at BuzzFeed and Managing Editor at Man Repeller and has written for The Cut, Vox, Refinery29, VICE, BuzzFeed, Man Repeller, The Sydney Morning Herald, PopSugar, SELF, Cosmopolitan, InStyle, and more. She is the lifestyle editor of two of Australia’s leading newspapers, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, and currently lives in Sydney.

Hayley Syrad, PhD, is a chartered psychologist. She gained a first-class psychology bachelor’s degree at the University of Southampton in 2007 and a PhD in behavioral nutrition at the Health Behaviour Research Centre, University College London, in 2016. Her research has focused on the factors influencing what and how young children eat. She has used real-world dietary data from the largest twin study in the UK (Gemini) to explore children’s eating behaviors and has specifically examined the role of appetite and parental feeding practices. She uncovered the finding that children who are more food responsive tend to eat more often, and children with lower sensitivity to satiety tend to eat larger portions. Her research also showed that the portion size served to children can influence how much they consume (larger servings = more consumed), and she was the first researcher to provide evidence of this relationship. Hayley has published a number of articles on infant and toddler feeding.

Hazel Edwards, OAM, is an acclaimed children’s author of over 200 titles, perhaps best known for her popular classic There’s a Hippopotamus on Our Roof Eating Cake. A director of the Australian Society of Authors and a National Reading Ambassador, Edwards was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia for Literature in 2013.

Heather Crosby’s first book, YumUniverse, was covered by HGTV.com, Reader’s Digest, and NPR’s “It’s Your Health,” among others. She is a lover of plant-inspired foods, and the recipe developer and photographer of her popular website, YumUniverse.com (100,000+ monthly visitors). She also holds a certification from the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies. She lives in West Virginia.

HEATHER WOLF is the author of Find More Birds and Birding at the Bridge. A Brooklyn-based birder, photographer, and educator, she works with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology as a web developer, teaches birding classes at Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and gives walks and talks for various organizations in New York City and beyond.

Helen McGrath, PhD, completed her undergraduate degree and Diploma of Education at the University of Sydney and her Masters degree and PhD at Monash University. She is currently an Adjunct Professor in the School of Education at RMIT University as well as a part-time senior lecturer in the School of Education at Deakin University. She also has a small private psychology practice in Cheltenham, Melbourne. Helen is a leading psychologist and educator with a particular interest and expertise in mental health, social skills and relationships. She is the author or co-author of 22 books for educators, psychologists and the general community.

Dr. Helen Pilcher is a science writer with a PhD in cell biology. She has written for Nature, The Guardian, and New Scientist. Her book Life Changing: How Humans are Alterting Life on Earth was The Times 2020 Science Book of the Year and was short-listed for the Wainwright Prize for Writing on Global Conservation. She lives in Warwickshire, England.

Helene Munson grew up in Brazil, Liberia, and Germany, spending most of her adult life in New York and Berlin. She writes short stories in English and German that have been published in magazines and anthologies. Inspired by her family history, her master’s degree was partly about the impact of armed conflicts on children. She lives outside New York City.

Heli Perrett, PhD, a sociologist and microbiologist, has served as a senior technical specialist at the United Nations Development Programme and at the World Bank. She specializes in food, public health, and farming issues. She learned to love and grow food at an early age, and she continues to harvest organic crops at her home in Oakland, California.

Henrietta Morrison is the founder of Lily’s Kitchen, voted the UK’s #1 pet food company for the last four years by the Good Shopping Guide. Her dog food is sold in hundreds of stores across the UK. Morrison believes that dogs should eat proper food, so she works with cooks, nutritionists, and vets to develop her recipes. Her border terrier, Lily, is her chief taster.

Herbert Wurth, a former chemist, has been working on the cultivation of mushrooms in the laboratory and garden for over 30 years. Together they run the Waldviertler Pilzgarten, which offers resources, classes, and advice to home mushroom growers. They live in Austria.

Holly Dunsworth is a biological anthropologist at the University of Rhode Island, where her research and teaching focuses on scientific narratives of human evolutionary history.

Houston Hughes specializes in combining written and spoken word with other art forms, and he has produced hundreds of live shows in collaboration with musicians, chefs, scientists, mathematicians, painters, dancers, and vaudeville acts. He is working every day to be a better person, and he’s doing it all in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

An acclaimed feature reporter for the Globe and Mail, Ian Brown is also the award-winning author of The Boy in the Moon: A Father’s Search for His Disabled Son, one of The New York Times’ 10 best books of the year. He lives in Toronto.

Ian Goldin is the Oxford University Professor of Globalization and Development and founding director of the Oxford Martin School, the world’s leading center for interdisciplinary research into critical global challenges, where he has established forty-five research programs. Previously, he was vice president of the World Bank and its Head of Policy, responsible for its collaboration with the United Nations and key partners. He served as adviser to President Nelson Mandela, has been knighted by the French government, and is the author of three BBC series. Ian has been an advisor to numerous businesses, governments, and foundations and is a founding trustee of the International Center for Future Generations and Chair of the CORE Econ initiative to transform economics. He is the author of twenty-five books, including Age of the City, which was selected by the Financial Times as one of its best books of 2023.

Ian Wright runs Brilliant Maps, one of the most popular cartographic sites on the internet. In addition to being a cartophile, he’s also a keen walker. In 2015, he combined these two passions to become the first person to walk all of the newly expanded London Tube map. Originally from Canada, he now lives in the UK.

iina creates unique and inventive vegan foods that value the natural shapes and colors of vegetables. Her recipes exclude meat, fish, eggs, dairy, and processed white sugar and never use any artificial seasoning or coloring. She is a graduate of L’ecole Vantan culinary school in Tokyo. In 2008, she lived on Brown’s Field, an organic farm in Isumi, Japan. On the farm, while learning to produce and preserve organic foods, she became the chef at Rice Terrace Café. In 2010, she moved to Tokyo and began her career as a vegan chef.

Infographic.ly is an infographic and information design agency based in Dubai.

Dr. Isabela Granic is a research scientist at the Hospital for Sick Children. They are both developmental psychologists as well as parents of twin boys. Together, they have given educational seminars and workshops to parents and clinicians around the world. Dr. Lewis and Granic live with their children in Toronto.

Jack Dunnington is a Brooklyn-based artist and designer.

John “Jack” Horner is one of the world’s foremost paleontologists, credited with finding the first dinosaur eggs in the Western Hemisphere, the first evidence of dinosaur colonial nesting, the first evidence of parental care among dinosaurs, and the first dinosaur embryos. He served as the inspiration for paleontologist Dr. Alan Grant in Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park, and as the technical adviser on all of the Jurassic Park films. Horner is Regents Professor of Paleontology, Emeritus, at Montana State University.

James A. Greenberg, MD, is the vice chairman of Obstetrics & Gynecology at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and an associate professor at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Greenberg has been actively engaged in clinical research as a physician-scientist throughout his career, co-authoring over one hundred publications, abstracts, and videos. In 2020, he received a Distinguished Clinician Award from Brigham & Women’s Hospital.

James Hawes studied German at University of Oxford and University College London, then held lectureships in German at the universities of Maynooth, Sheffield, and Swansea. He has published six novels with Jonathan Cape and is also the author of The Shortest History of Germany and The Shortest History of England. He leads the MA in creative writing at Oxford Brookes University. He is Series Story Consultant, on-screen contributor, and writer of the associated book for the major eight-episode BBC TV history of British creativity, These Brilliant Isles: Art That Made Us, to be screened in spring 2022.

James Heneage set up the Ottakar’s chain of bookshops before co-founding the Chalke Valley History Festival and turning his energies to writing his own books. The Mistra Chronicles, his quartet of historical novels set in the Byzantine era, was followed by A World on Fire, an epic adventure set during the Greek War of Independence in the 1820s. He lives in the Peloponnese with his wife, Charlotte.

James M. Rippe, MD is the founder and director of the Rippe Lifestyle Institute, the largest research organization in the world exploring how daily habits impact health. He is also a professor of medicine focusing on cardiology at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School.

James Rhodes was born in London in 1975. A keen piano player, at eighteen he was offered a scholarship at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, but went to Edinburgh University instead. James stopped playing the piano entirely and dropped out after a year. He ended up working in the City of London for five years. After a devastating mental breakdown that led him to be institutionalized, he took the piano up again. He is now a professional and applauded concert pianist, writer, and TV and radio presenter. His memoir, Instrumental, was published to great critical acclaim and became an international bestseller. Visit him at jamesrhodes.tv.

Artist and illustrator Jamie Shelman holds a degree in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). She runs The Dancing Cat, an online stationery and print shop, and she is also a popular Etsy seller. Her muse (the neighbor’s cat) waits at the window every morning to be let in, and then out, and then back in. She lives in Baltimore.

Jan Schwochow, an infographic specialist, was the art director of Stern magazine’s infographics and today is the founder and CEO of the Infographics Group, which has received numerous awards. He’s the author of the bestsellers Understanding Germany and the 100 + 1 Facts series.

Jan Zauzmer is the author of If You Go with Your Goat to Vote and Maxine’s Critters Get the Vaccine Jitters. A graduate of Princeton University and Stanford Law School, Jan lives with her husband near Philadelphia, PA, where they raised their three children.

Jane Stephenson is a learning and development senior specialist for a globally diversified medical device and health care company headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. She spent the first half of her career as a registered dietitian nutritionist (RDN) and certified diabetes educator (CDE) prior to entering the health care industry. She is the author of several nutrition and fitness educational books and tools targeted to helping people take action to live healthier, happier lives.

Jasmin Lee Cori, MS, worked as a licensed psychotherapist for many years, specializing in working with adults who experienced childhood abuse and neglect. She has worked in human service agencies and private practice, and has taught psychology in colleges and professional schools. She is the author of numerous articles and five nonfiction books, including The Emotionally Absent Mother and Healing From Trauma.

Jayne Hardy is the founder and CEO of The Blurt Foundation, a social enterprise dedicated to helping those affected by depression. She has spoken and written widely about her own experiences of depression and self-care. In 2016, Jayne led the viral #WhatYouDontSee social media campaign. She lives in Cornwall with her husband, their daughter, and their dog.

Jeanne Lemlin is the award-winning author of five cookbooks, including Quick Vegetarian Pleasures, which won a James Beard Award. A vegetarian since age 15 and a pioneering vegetarian cookbook author, she has written for numerous national magazines, including Yankee Magazine, Cooking Light, and Gourmet. Lemlin has also made numerous appearances on the Food Network. Currently a high school English teacher, she lives in Great Barrington, MA.

Jenna Macciochi, PhD, has over twenty years of experience as a scientist researching the impact of lifestyle on the immune system in health and disease. She is on a mission to break down the science behind our health and share the secrets of how to be well, for good. Dr. Macciochi is a lecturer at Sussex University and a certified fitness instructor. Her writing has been featured in The Times (London), Women’s Health, Marie Claire, Glamour magazine, and Metro, among others. She is a mother of five-year-old twins and a keen home cook, creating recipes inspired by her farm-to-table Scottish roots and capturing her husband’s Italian heritage. She lives in Brighton, UK.

Dr. Jennie Brand-Miller is a professor of human nutrition at the University of Sydney and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. She is acknowledged worldwide for her expertise on carbohydrates and health, as well as infant nutrition.

Jennifer L. Verdolin, PhD, is an animal behavior researcher specializing in social and mating behavior and a scholar in residence at Duke University. Her work has been featured on NPR and in Wired, Scientific American, and many other media outlets. Her weekly radio segment, “Think Like a Human, Act Like an Animal,”is a regular feature on the nationally syndicated D.L. Hughley Show (broadcast on 43 stations in 17 states with 3 million listeners). Dr. Verdolin also writes a Psychology Today blog. Her first book, Wild Connection, explores what animal mating can teach us about human relationships.

Jennifer Teege worked in advertising for 16 years before becoming an author. For four years in her twenties she lived in Israel, where she became fluent in Hebrew. She graduated from Tel Aviv University with a degree in Middle Eastern and African studies. Teege lives in Germany with her husband and two sons. A New York Times and international bestseller, My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me is her first book.

Jennifer Trainer Thompson is the author or coauthor of 16 books, including three James Beard Award-nominated cookbooks.

Jenny Carenco is the creator of Les Menus Bébé, a leading French brand of flavorful, high quality, and 100–percent natural baby food. Her baby food cookbooks have collectively been translated into five languages. She is a mother of two and a graduate of the prestigious MBA program at HEC, France’s premier business school.

Jeremy Gavron is the author of The Book of Israel, winner of the Encore Award, and An Acre of Barren Ground. A former foreign correspondent in Africa and Asia, he lives in London, and teaches in the MFA program at Warren Wilson College in North Carolina.

Jeremy Webb is editor-in-chief of New Scientist, where he has worked for over twenty-three years.

Jessica Finlay, PhD, is a University of Colorado Boulder assistant professor who specializes in environmental gerontology and health geography. With degrees from Queen’s University and the University of Minnesota, she has won awards for her work and authored publications in leading health, geography, and gerontology journals.

Jessica Morris is a vegan tattooed bunny-hugging hair colorist who runs Rabbit Food Grocery, an online and pop-up vegan shop based in Austin, Texas. She firmly believes that even those who hate to cook can enjoy the benefits of a Taco Cleanse.

Jessica Nadel writes the popular blog Cupcakes and Kale. She has a passion for healthy, local, plant-based eating and thinks that in a diet of vibrant, nourishing meals there is room for a cupcake or two, as well. She is also the proprietor/baker at Oh My Bakeshop, a natural and organic bakery of special-order vegan goods. She lives in Ontario, Canada.

Jessica Smith is an illustrator and designer who studied at Falmouth University. Her work consists of pieces focused on simple shapes and bright colors where scale and perspective play a large role. She also runs gouache workshops and authored the crafting book Get Up & Gouache. She lives in a small town near Oxford, England.

Jessica Wapner is a journalist and former science editor at Newsweek whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Wired, Medium, Discover, Popular Science, Self, Scientific American, New York magazine, The Atlantic, and elsewhere. Her first book, The Philadelphia Chromosome, was named a top ten nonfiction book by The Wall Street Journal. She lives in Brooklyn.

Jill Rabin, MS, CCC-SLP/L, IBCLC, lectures nationally and internationally on adapted baby-led weaning and provides early intervention services to babies and their families. She lives in Northbrook, Illinois.

Theoretical physicist, author, and broadcaster Jim Al–Khalili’s numerous other books include Quantum and Paradox. In 2016 he received the inaugural Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication.

Jim Taylor, PhD, has worked with young people, parents, and educators for more than 24 years. He has spoken at over 700 venues globally. His previous books include Positive Pushing: How to Raise a Successful and Happy Child (Hyperion, 2002). His dozens of past national and local TV appearances include NBC’s Today and ABC’s World News This Weekend, and he is regularly quoted by major print media. He lives with his family in Marin County, California.

Joe Vogel is Germany’s most renowned survival expert. From expeditions in the Australian outback to journeys through Africa, Central and Southern Europe, Asia, and South America, he has spent years traveling the remotest regions on Earth—accumulating extensive experience and putting his survival skills to the test in the process. He teaches via his website, survival courses, videos, and books, of which this is the second to be published in English.

Johanna M. Seddon, MD, ScM, is a professor of ophthalmology at University of Massachusetts Medical School, and the Director of Retina as well as the Director of the Macular Degeneration Center of Excellence in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester. Her research has earned numerous awards and honors.

John Cassidy cofounded the children’s book publishing company Klutz Press in 1978, and served as its creative head until 2000. He has written over 200 books and is a recipient of the Legacy for Children Award. He is the coauthor, with Thacher Hurd, of Paint This Book! Watercolor for the Artistically Undiscovered. He holds degrees in English and education from Stanford University, and currently lectures at Stanford’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design. He lives in Palo Alto, California.

John Green is the award-winning author of mega-bestsellers like The Fault in Our Stars (over five million copies sold) and The Anthropocene Reviewed.

John Hirst (1942–2016) was a celebrated historian and social commentator whose notable history books include Australian History in Seven Questions and The Australians. A history professor at La Trobe University for almost 40 years, he lived in Melbourne, Australia.

John Keane is currently Professor of Politics at the University of Sydney and the WZB (Berlin). He is the author of many acclaimed books, most recently The New Despotism (2020) and To Kill A Democracy: India’s Passage To Despotism (2021, with Debasish Roy Chowdhury).

Foreword author John Mather won the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics for measuring the Big Bang. He is the senior project scientist at the James Webb Space Telescope, which is the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope.

John Wang was born and raised in Texas, but his love affair with night markets started during the childhood summers he spent visiting Taiwan. A graduate of Yale’s law and business school (and triple-major from the University of Michigan), John quit his high-paying M&A attorney job at a premier law firm after paying off his student loans and in 2015 pursued his dream of creating what came to be the Queens Night Market. Now in its 5th year, the popular event averages over 12,000 visitors every summer Saturday—and has welcomed over 1 million visitors since its inception. Along with his wife Storm Garner, he is co-author of the market’s cookbook The World Eats Here.

John Zubrzycki is an Australian author with a PhD in Indian history from the University of New South Wales. A former foreign news editor with The Australian, he has worked as a correspondent in India and as a diplomat in New Delhi and Jakarta. He is the author of four books on India, most recently House of Jaipur: The Inside Story of India’s Most Glamorous Royal Family.

Jon Butterworth is a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at University College London and a member of the ATLAS collaboration at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland. He writes the Life and Physics blog for the Guardian, has written articles for a range of publications including the BBC and New Scientist, and is also the author of Most Wanted Particle, shortlisted for Book of the Year by Physics World. He was awarded the Chadwick Medal of the Institute of Physics in 2013 for his pioneering experimental and phenomenological work in high-energy particle physics. For the last fifteen years, he has divided his time between London and Geneva.

Jonn Elledge’s previous books include The Compendium of (Not Quite) Everything and Conspiracy: A History of Boll*cks Theories, and How Not to Fall for Them. At the New Statesman he created and ran its urbanism-focused CityMetric site, spending six happy years writing about cities, maps, and borders. He lives in London.

Jordan Fisher Smith worked for twenty-one years as a park ranger in California, Wyoming, Idaho, and Alaska. The author of Nature Noir and narrator of the documentary Under Our Skin, he has written for Discover magazine, The New Yorker, Men’s Journal, TIME.com, and many other outlets. Visit him at jordanfishersmith.com.

Jörg Mayer is a vegan cookbook author; creator of EatThis!, the most popular vegan blog in all of Germany; and photography- and design-geek, who is also addicted to hot sauces.

Julia Boucachard grew up splitting her time between Tokyo and France. After becoming vegetarian and then vegan, she found her options when dining out drastically limited, so she became a self-taught cook and started a catering business. She now runs Mori Café in Paris, where she shares plant-based recipes inspired by the food of her childhood.

Julie A. Stamm was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) in 2007. Since then, Julie has made it her mission to educate, advocate for, and support others battling the disease, giving her the opportunity to work with physicians, patients, and foundations across the globe. She lives with her partner, son, and two pups in Colorado.

Julie Radico, PsyD, ABPP, is a board-certified clinical health psychologist with ten years of experience working in primary care settings. In 2023, she opened an independent consulting, coaching, and therapy practice. She earned her doctoral degree in clinical psychology and master’s degrees in clinical psychology & counseling and clinical health psychology at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine.

Professional artist Jun Ichihara has illustrated over 30 books for children.

Jutta Ritschel is a music and voice instructor with more than thirty years of experience specializing in breathing and vocalization. She teaches privately, is a lecturer at the University of Augsburg, Germany, and consults on countless workshops and continuing education classes. Her artistic practice includes performing as an ensemble singer and producing musical projects. A trained pianist, she went on to study elementary music education and is a professionally certified breath therapist and educator. Drawing upon the wealth of her long-standing pedagogical and artistic practices, as well as her personal vocal experience, she connects her clients to a plethora of resources, paths to creativity, and a newfound joie de vivre.

Kai Kupferschmidt is a contributing correspondent for Science magazine, where he writes about infectious diseases as well as drug development, biotechnology, evolution, and science policy, and where his intrepid coverage of the coronavirus pandemic has gained international attention. He also writes for the German newspapers Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung and Die Zeit. When not doing these things, he is usually thinking about the color blue. He holds a degree in molecular biomedicine from the University of Bonn and lives in Berlin.

Karen Chernyaev has written or edited numerous bestselling books on health and wellness.

Dr. Kate Balestrieri is a licensed psychologist and certified sex therapist focused on helping people heal from trauma and addiction, improve relationships, and have better sex lives. She is the founder of Modern Intimacy, a counseling practice that operates in Los Angeles, Miami, and Chicago, and a passionate advocate for mental health, relational and sexual health, and wellness. Dr. Kate works with individuals and couples, primarily around treating trauma, substance abuse and addiction, intimacy disorders (sex/love addiction and sexual dysfunction), eating disorders and body image issues, bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, and anxiety.

Kate Jacoby is a co-owner of Vedge and Ground Provisions, modern vegetable restaurants that have earned rave reviews from diners and critics alike. Jacoby, along with her husband and partner Rich Landau, is a pioneer of vegan fine dining, having earned nods and accolades from culinary institutions and media like the James Beard Foundation, the Food Network, and Bon Appetit. Jacoby oversees the restaurants’ operations and manages the couple’s organic farmette, Lost Glove Garden, in Chester County. Together with Landau, she has written four previous cookbooks, including Vedge and V Street. She lives just outside her native Philadelphia.

Dr. Kate Marsh, an advanced accredited practicing dietitian and credentialed diabetes educator, has coauthored numerous previous books with Dr. Brand-Miller.

Kathleen Jamie, in 2021 named the National Poet of Scotland, is the author of four books of poetry and three nonfiction titles, including Sightlines and, most recently, Surfacing. Her many awards and honors include the 2017 Royal Geographic Society Ness Award, conferred upon Jamie “for outstanding creative writing at the confluence of travel, nature and culture”; the 2013 Costa Book Award; as well as numerous prestigious poetry awards, including the Somerset Maugham Award, Forward Poetry Prize of the Year, and Geoffrey Faber Memorial Award (twice). She lives in Fife, Scotland.

Kathy Kochan was diagnosed with diabetes at five years old. She regularly lectured and taught healthy cooking classes in her native New Jersey. In 2010, she passed away after a 22-year battle with breast cancer; she was a proud survivor of insulin-dependent diabetes. Kathy is survived by her husband, Henry, and her sons, David and Marc.

Katy Georgiou is a practicing clinical supervisor and gestalt psychotherapist accredited with the UKCP and BACP. She works in private practice and within a GP surgery counselling service. She also works with the British Association for Performing Arts Medicine and Music Minds Matter delivering therapy, workshops, and support groups to music industry professionals. She is the founder, host, and producer of Sound Affects Podcast, a music and mental health podcast featured in NME, Psychologies magazine, and Therapy Today magazine. She regularly features in the media and on panels on issues around therapy and mental health, including BBC Radio. She edits the Ethical Dilemmas section of Therapy Today. An experienced journalist, Katy has written for The Times, The Guardian, The Independent, Newsweek, Metro, and Psychologies, among others. She is also a former Samaritans helpline listener and has worked in NHS psychiatric hospitals and in HM government prisons.

Katzie Guy-Hamilton is a nationally recognized pastry chef and creative, now the food and beverage director at the luxury fitness brand Equinox. Prior to entering the high-performance world of wellness, Katzie ran all Global Food and Beverage and Innovation for the indulgent chocolate brand Max Brenner International. She ran the pastry departments at Grand Hyatt’s New York flagship in Grand Central and the celebrated pastry program at New York’s trendsetting Ace Hotel. She trained in California under pastry maven Sherry Yard at Wolfgang Puck’s Spago Beverly Hills. She is a graduate of the French Culinary Institute and recipient of its Outstanding Alumni of the Year for 2011. Katzie’s talents earned her a spot on Season Two of the television cooking competition Top Chef: Just Desserts. She was named one of the Top Ten Pastry Chefs in America by Dessert Professional Magazine in 2014.

Katzie teaches healthy cooking at Goal4Kids in Harlem and cochairs October Ball, benefitting the Catholic Big Sisters and Big Brothers Organization. She embodies the concept of living mindfully in the middle and is a certified health coach by the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. Katzie’s mission is to inspire others to learn their happiest selves through clean eating, delicious indulgences, and a collective approach to integrative health. Katzie has appeared on Fox Network, Martha Stewart Radio, CBS, Food Network, Bravo TV, and internationally, in Japanese, Australian, and Korean media, as well as in various print and digital publications.

Dr. Kazuo Hiraki oversees the Hiraki Lab for baby studies at the University of Tokyo, where he measures babies’ eye motion and brain activity to assess their development and self-awareness.

As a small boy, nothing excited Keiron Pim more than a visit to London’s renowned Natural History Museum, where he would gaze up at the Diplodocus skeleton and later depart clutching some little memento: an eraser shaped like Stegosaurus, a lurid poster of a Jurassic scene, or a book crammed with dino-facts. It would have blown his mind to know that he’d one day write a book on dinosaurs. Keiron, married with three daughters, is an award-winning nonfiction author, editor, and writing tutor based in Norfolk, England. See more at keironpim.co.uk.

Keith Stewart has run Keith’s Farm in Orange County, New York, since 1986. Illustrator Flavia Bacarella, his wife, teaches painting and drawing at Lehman College of the City University of New York.

Kelli Bronski is a graduate of Cornell University’s prestigious School of Hotel Administration, a ten-plus year veteran of the hospitality and restaurant business, and a lifelong baker and cook.

Kelsey Oseid is an illustrator, author, and amateur naturalist. Her gouache illustrations focus on natural history and astronomy. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Ken Mogi is a neuroscientist, writer, and broadcaster based in Tokyo. He has published more than thirty papers on cognitive science and neuroscience, and over one hundred books in Japan covering popular science, essay, criticism, and self-help. His books have sold close to one million copies. He is the author of Awakening Your Ikigai and The Way of Nagomi.

Kenji Morimoto is a fourth-generation Japanese American currently based in London. Food is an essential part of his cultural identity; as a child, he was in charge of making tsukemono (Japanese pickles) for family gatherings, and as an adult his passion for exploring global fermentation traditions has only grown. During the pandemic, he started his Instagram @kenjcooks to document his interest in fermentation and connect the dots between diasporic food traditions and his own. Since then, he’s cooked in fermentation-focused kitchens in Poland, run fermentation-based supper clubs, led workshops on koji and kimchi, partnered with companies such as MOB, Tasty UK, and Sous Chef, and worked with the Ottolenghi Test Kitchen as a guest chef. He was a finalist for the 2023 BBC Food and Farming Digital Creator of the Year Award.

Kim Jones is a freelance journalist specializing in health and well- being. She is a member of the Guild of Health Writers and writes for various national women’s magazines and newspapers in the UK, including the Daily Mirror, the Sunday Express Magazine, Woman’s Weekly, Tesco Magazine, and Woman and Home. Kim lives in Cardiff with her partner, their two sons, a cat, and cocker spaniel.

Kim Long is the creator of the award-winning Moon Calendar. Between 1984 and 2006, his American Forecaster Almanac was published in twenty-two annual editions. He is the author or coauthor of many other books, including The Moon Book. He lives in Denver, Colorado.

Kris Verburgh, MD, is a researcher at the Center Leo Apostel for Interdisciplinary Studies at the Free University of Brussels and is on the faculty of Singularity University, a Silicon Valley think tank devoted to tackling the world’s biggest challenges with emerging technology. Dr. Verburgh researches interventions that can extend healthy life span and combat aging-related diseases through nutrition and state-of-the-art biotechnology. He has established a new scientific discipline, nutrigerontology, which researches diets and guidelines to slow down aging and reduce the risk of aging-related diseases. Dr. Verburgh is frequently invited to speak at venues all around the world about new developments and paradigm shifts in medicine, health care, the science of aging, and more.

Kristin M. White is an educational consultant with Darien Academic Advisors, where she works with students in the United States and all over the world. She has written for several education newsletters and is a member of the Independent Educational Consultants Association and the New England Association for College Admissions Counseling. She is also the author of The Complete Guide to the Gap Year. She lives in Darien, CT.

A self-described former “die-hard cheese nerd,” Kristy Turner is now the writer, recipe developer, and food stylist behind the vegan food blog Keepin’ It Kind. Once a professional fromagier and mutterer of the words, “I could never be vegan,” Kristy now loves her compassionate lifestyle and works with her photographer husband, Chris, to make veganism accessible, fun, and delicious for everyone.

Larry Scheckel taught high school-level physics and aerospace science for over 38 years. He was named Tomah (Wisconsin) Teacher of the Year three times, and Presidential Awardee at the state level for six years. Scheckel has authored articles for The Science Teacher magazine and The Physics Teacher magazine, and for a number of years has answered science-related questions in the twice-weekly Tomah Times, out of which this book grew. Scheckel has been a Science Olympiad coach, robotics mentor, organized star gazing sessions, and given orientation flights to students, and he has given presentations to thousands of adults and students in such venues as Children’s Museums, Boys and Girls Clubs, Rotary, and conventions.He lives with his wife in Tomah, Wisconsin.

Lars Thomsen is a pioneering animal rights activist and vegan advocate. He has been vegan since the age of 21, in 1990, and lives in Germany.

Laura Hiddinga is a journalist and writes for LotteLust, an online magazine for womxn who want to learn about sexuality, have fun, and fantasize. She lives in Amsterdam, in the Netherlands—a country widely regarded as boasting the most progressive sex education and sexual values in the world.

Laura Jean Baker teaches at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, specializing in memoir, women’s stories, crime narratives, and literature for children. She earned her MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan, where she was a Colby Fellow. Her poetry and essays have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review; War, Literature, and the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities; and Calyx, among others, and she has been twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her essay “The Year of the Tiger” was named a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2013. She lives in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

Laura Tamblyn Watts is the CEO of CanAge, Canada’s national seniors’ advocacy organization. She teaches Law and Aging at the University of Toronto and has worked as a lawyer defending the rights of older people. Tamblyn Watts is also a regular media guest and keynote speaker on aging issues. She lives in Toronto, Canada.

Passionate about vegan food without being preachy, Lee Watson brings a singular sensibility to the vegan cookbook shelf. He has worked in restaurants for more than 20 years, has cooked on TV as one half of the presenting team on Fox’s Meat v Veg and helped open a restaurant on the beach in Murcia, Spain. Besides growing his own organic fruit and vegetables, Lee writes poetry and plays guitar, practices yoga, hikes and runs in the mountains, swims in the sea, surfs and enjoys nature. He lives “the good life” with his partner, Jane, in western Wales, where he works as a vegan chef at an idyllic retreat center in Snowdonia National Park.

Lesley Downer is a Japan expert, author, journalist, and historian. She has written four novels, The Shogun Quartet, and several works of nonfiction, including the immersive work of journalism Women of the Pleasure Quarters: The Secret History of the Geisha and The Brothers: The Hidden World of Japan’s Richest Family, which was chosen as a New York Times Book of the Year. She has traveled widely and given lectures at the Japan Society New York, at Asia and Japan Societies across the United States, at the Royal Geographic Society and the British Museum in London, and many other venues. She was the historical consultant for Northern Ballet’s spectacular 2020 ballet Geisha and she appears on Age of the Samurai: Battle for Japan (Netflix). She lives in London with her husband, the author Arthur I. Miller.

Liesbeth Puts is an internationally certified animal behaviorist specializing in cats. She also holds a degree in social psychology from Utrecht University. She has been a cat parent since 1976, a behavioral therapist since 2008, and a cat blogger (read by thousands of fans in her native Netherlands) since 2012. She lives in Utrecht.

Linda Hachfeld, MPH, RDN, is the former nutrition coordinator for the Mankato Heart Health Program and has volunteered with the American Heart Association for 35 years. She holds a master’s degree in public health and has been a member of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics for 40 years. She lives in Minnesota.

Linda Jaivin is an American-born, internationally published Australian essayist, novelist, translator, and specialist writer on China. Her books include The Monkey and the Dragon, the city profile Beijing, and several China-based novels. Her essays have appeared in a wide range of publications in Australia and beyond. She has previously lived, studied, and worked in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Beijing.

Lindsey S. Love is a food photographer and recipe developer living in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and dog. She is the creator of the blog Dolly and Oatmeal, which has been a finalist for Saveur magazine’s Food Blog Awards numerous times. Her work has been featured in Food 52, The Huffington Post, People.com, Buzzfeed, Epicurious, InStyle, Thoughtfully Magazine and Saveur.

Lisa Randall is a theoretical physicist and Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University. She is the author of Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs, Warped Passages, Knocking on Heaven’s Door, and Higgs Discovery.

Lisa Stander-Horel and Tim Horel are the writing and photography team behind the baking blog Gluten Free Canteen.

Lisette Kreischer is the author of seven books on vegan food and cooking, and living an ecofabulous way of life. She is also the cofounder of the company behind The Dutch Weed Burger, which is the subject of a documentary-length feature filmed in NYC and screened around the world. Kreischer is committed to spreading the word that plant-based food is easy, tasty, and healthy, and belongs in everybody’s diet. She lives in the Netherlands.

Lolo Houbein first learned about growing fruits and vegetables from her Uncle Wim, whose food garden saved the family during the last years of World War II in war-torn Holland. In 1958, she emigrated to Australia with her husband and children. She studied literature and anthropology at the universities of Adelaide and Papua New Guinea, and has written numerous books and articles on humanitarian and conservation topics. Houbein lives and gardens in the Adelaide Hills of Australia.

Lona Aalders is a photographer and illustrator. She lives in a tiny house in Baambrugge and sees slow living as her personal religion. She previously authored the book Bullet Journaling: This is How You Do It! and illustrated Vanaf Nu wordt alles beter for Maartje Willems.

Lúcia Barros holds two master’s degrees, in sociology and in journalism, from the University of London and City University. Over twenty years ago, she started to study yoga and meditation with Márcia De Luca, coauthor of Let’s Play Yoga!, and together they engaged in many projects. Lúcia conducts research on meditation and happiness, teaches mindfulness applied to education and innovation, and business and sustainability at universities in Brazil and England. Lúcia and Márcia are founders of Bindu Escola de Valores, teaching mindfulness and values to children, teachers, parents, and institutions to help them find the best versions of themselves, and take part in building a world that is healthy, compassionate, and happy.

Dr. Lucy Hone received her master’s degree in applied positive psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, the world-renowned home of the field. Today, she’s a researcher in resilience/well-being at the Auckland University of Technology.

Lucy Sante was born in Verviers, Belgium, and is the author of ten books, her first being Low Life (FSG, 1991). Sante’s other books include Evidence, The Factory of Facts, Kill All Your Darlings, The Other Paris, Folk Photography, Maybe the People Would Be the Times, and I Heard Her Call My Name. She is the recipient of a Whiting Award, Guggenheim and Cullman fellowships, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Grammy (for album notes), and an Infinity Award for Writing from the International Center of Photography. Sante has contributed to the New York Review of Books since 1981 and to many other publications. She recently retired after twenty-four years teaching at Bard College.

Dr. Luise Reddemann, MD, is a trained neurologist and specialist in psychotherapeutic medicine as well as a psychoanalyst. She is the creator of psychodynamic imaginative trauma therapy (PITT) for the treatment of complex disorders stemming from traumatic experiences. She holds an honorary professorship for psychotraumatology and psychological medicine at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. For more than thirty years, Dr. Reddemann has been involved with treating trauma patients and the effects of their traumatic experiences. From 1985 to 2003 she was head of the clinic for psychotherapeutic and psychosomatic medicine of the Protestant Hospital in Bielefeld, Germany.

Lukas Volger is the author of five cookbooks: Veggie Burgers Every Which Way, Vegetarian Entreés That Won’t Leave You Hungry, Bowl, Start Simple, and Snacks for Dinner. He also created Made by Lukas, a premium veggie burger company established in 2013, and cofounded and served as editorial director of the biannual queer food journal Jarry. His work has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Bon Appetit, and elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Maartje Willems is a Dutch journalist and writer. She lives in Amsterdam where she works as a freelancer and for the VPRO radio program Never Sleep Again. She previously wrote the self-help book Vanaf nu wordt alles beter (From now on everything will get better).

Madelyne Meyer is the marketing manager for the Wine Cellars of Aarau—her family’s business for five generations. A certified wine specialist, she studied at the INSEEC Wine and Spirits Institute in Bordeaux. She lives in Switzerland.

Magdalena Wurth is an agricultural scientist and enthusiastic home mushroom grower.

Malden Nesheim, PhD, coauthor of Why Calories Count, is Cornell University Professor of Nutrition Emeritus and Provost Emeritus. He joined the Cornell faculty in 1959 and in 1974 he was named Director of the Division of Nutritional Sciences, a post which he held until the summer of 1987. He has received the Conrad A. Elvehjem Award for public service from the American Institute of Nutrition and in 1995 was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was elected a fellow of the American Society of Nutritional Sciences in 1997.  He earned a B.S. in agricultural science and an M.S. in animal nutrition from the University of Illinois followed by a Ph.D. in nutrition from Cornell. His research interests have been aspects of nutritional biochemistry and more recently, the relationship of parasitic infections to nutritional status.

Manuel Bortoletti is an award-winning freelance graphic designer focused on editorial design, infographic illustration, and art direction. He lives in Venice.

Dr. Marc D. Lewis is a professor in the Department of Human Development and Applied Psychology at the University of Toronto.

Marcel Schuttelaar, a nutritional engineer, is the founder of the North Sea Farm Foundation, the engine behind the cultivation of seaweed in the North Sea. He lives in the Netherlands.

Márcia De Luca has been studying and practicing yoga, meditation, and Ayurveda for over 35 years. She devotes herself to her chosen mission: to inspire people to find their wholeness, teaching them paths to integrate body, mind, and spirit. She studied with Deepak Chopra, Dr. David Frawley (Vamadeva Shastri) and several teachers in India. She advises companies and offers talks, workshops, and tailor-made courses. Márcia and Lúcia Barros, coauthor of Let’s Play Yoga!, are the founders of Bindu Escola de Valores, teaching mindfulness and values to children, teachers, parents, and institutions to help them find the best versions of themselves, and to take part in building a world that is healthy, compassionate, and happy.

Marco Tedesco is a research professor at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University. After receiving his Laurea degree and PhD from the University of Naples Federico II and the Italian National Research Council, he went on to join the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center as a postdoc and later, as a professor, became the founder and director of the Cryospheric Processes Laboratory. Tedesco has been featured in Science and frequently speaks as an expert on polar regions for The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, and others. He lives in New York.

Margaret Lobenstine (1943–2015) founded Alternative Approaches, a career and life-coaching business, and worked with more than five thousand clients. A Renaissance Soul herself, she created three successful—but entirely different—businesses. This is her first and only book.

Margaret Sassé founded Toddler Kindy GymbaROO in Australia in 1982, which now has 85 centers, 16 of them based internationally. An acknowledged authority on infant development, she wrote and produced several books and videos.

Marianne Taylor is a writer, illustrator, and wildlife photographer. She’s written more than twenty nature books for adults and children, many illustrated with her own artwork or photographs. She also writes for Birdwatch, the Independent, BBC Wildlife, Country Life, Nature’s Home, and The Lady.

Marie Kacouchia is a young Parisian who embraces the cultural references of her two homelands: France and the Ivory Coast. Passionate about cooking, her goal is to promote this singular culture of hers, between the culture of origin and that of the host country, through cuisine that is essentially mixed. She lives in Paris, France.

Mario Martín, a pattern artist and teacher, learned drawing and composition from studying architecture and graphic design (in which he has a master’s degree). Subsequent to his studies, he discovered his true calling: pattern art, which helps him to alleviate his anxiety. He is the illustrator of The Mindfulness Patterns Coloring Book and The Mindfulness Doodles Coloring Book. He lives in Madrid, Spain.

Mark Vanhoenacker is the author of the international bestseller Skyfaring, a Financial Times columnist, and a regular contributor to The New York Times and Slate. A management consultant until 2001, Vanhoenacker is a Senior First Officer for British Airways. He recently piloted his final flight with his beloved Boeing 747 (which he chronicled for Financial Times) and now flies 787s for British Airways.

Marlo Mack (a pen name) produces the award-winning How to Be a Girl podcast. A Peabody Award finalist, it has been featured by the Atlantic Monthly, The Guardian, and Time magazine in their annual lists of top podcasts. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, NPR, BBC, Salon, and The Advocate.

Marni Jameson is America’s most beloved home-and-lifestyle columnist. Besides writing a weekly nationally syndicated column, Jameson is the author of five bestselling books, including her Downsizing the Family Home series. “At Home with Marni Jameson,” Marni’s popular syndicated column, appears weekly in more than twenty papers nationwide, reaching five million readers with her trademark humor and advice. The mother of a blended family of five grown children, Marni lives in Winter Park, Florida, with her husband, Doug, and their three unruly dogs.

Martha Watson Murphy is an award-winning author who has written, co-written, edited, or developed more than thirty books. Her areas of interest include health; food and the people who bring it to us; life in out-of-the-way places; how-to; memoir; business; and our relationship with dogs.

Mary Akers’s fiction, poetry, and non-fiction have appeared in many journals and anthologies. She is the author of a short story collection, Women Up On Blocks, from Press 53. Although raised in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, which she will always call home, she currently lives in western New York.

Mary Ellen Hannibal’s work has appeared in The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Esquire, and Elle, among many other outlets.

Mary Gordon is an internationally recognized educator, author, child advocate, and parenting expert who has created award-winning programs focused on the power of empathy. In 1996, she founded Roots of Empathy, which now offers programs in Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and elsewhere. Gordon speaks and consults to governments, educational organizations, and public institutions. She is a Member of the Order of Canada and an Ashoka Fellow.

Massimo Pigliucci is the K. D. Irani Professor of Philosophy at the City College of New York. He has written for publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Philosophy Now, and The Philosophers’ Magazine, among others. Pigliucci is the author or editor of sixteen books, including the bestselling How to Be a Stoic and most recently The Quest for Character. He is the coauthor with Gregory Lopez of A Handbook for New Stoics.

New York Times–bestselling author Matt Frazier is a vegan ultramarathoner, founder of the No Meat Athlete movement, and author of The No Meat Athlete Cookbook. He lives in Asheville, North Carolina.

As a boy in the 1990s, Matthew Bucklan eagerly awaited each new issue of National Geographic. There were just so many places, and they were all uniquely captivating. His favorite part was the centerfold map, which he would explore for hours. As he grew older, the nascent internet opened up a whole new world of geography, letting him see people and news from all of the places that had previously been mere points on a map. This love of human geography eventually propelled him to the state geography bee; today, he still can’t look away from a great map. He lives in the Milwaukee area.

Max Miller is the author of the New York Times–bestselling cookbook Tasting History and the creator and host of the viral YouTube series Tasting History with Max Miller, where he shares his passion for culinary history and historic dishes. Max’s work has been covered in outlets including America’s Test Kitchen, ABC’s Localish, Binging with Babish, Chowhound, Foodsided, GLAAD, KTLA Morning News, Mythical Kitchen’s podcast A Hotdog Is a Sandwich, The Rachael Ray Show, and Today.com. He’s also a regular guest on Simon Majumdar’s food history podcast Eat My Globe. Max currently resides in Los Angeles, California, with his husband, José, and their cat, Cersei.

Max Walther is a Germany-based book designer and illustrator with over ten years of experience illustrating children’s books. Walther studied design and illustration at the University of Applied Sciences in Mainz, Germany, and loves telling stories through illustration in his wimmelbooks.

MEGAN ROSSI, PhD, RD, The Gut Health Doctor, is one of the most influential gut health specialists internationally. A practicing dietitian and nutritionist with an award-winning PhD in gut health, she is also a leading research fellow at King’s College London, where she is currently investigating nutrition-based therapies in gut health, including pre- and probiotics, dietary fibers, plant-based diversity, the low-FODMAP diet, and food additives. She is also the founder of The Gut Health Clinic, where she leads a team of gut-specialist dietitians who see clients all over the world. She is a Daily Mail contributing columnist, a two-time instant Sunday Times–bestselling author, and one of Business Insider’s Top 100 Coolest People in Food & Drink. She lives in London, England.

Mehrdad Zaeri was born in 1970 in Iran. His family applied for asylum in Germany when he was fourteen, emigrating in 1985. After finishing school, he decided to draw pictures for the rest of his life. While exhibiting his early drawings, he also worked as a taxi driver. By 2001, he was a full-time freelance artist. He also creates drawings as part of multimedia performances, including those by the storytelling group Knopfkino, which he founded. Since 2016, he and his wife, Christina Laube, as Duo Sourati, have been painting large murals in cities around the world.  

Coauthor of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung’s blog Food Affair, which reaches hundreds of thousands of readers per month, Melanie Mühl is a features editor at FAZ as well as a feature journalist.

Melanie Potock, MA, CCC-SLP, is an international speaker on the topic of picky eating and feeding disorders in children. Melanie has coached over a thousand parents on how to raise healthy, happy eaters right from the start and has over twenty years of clinical experience helping children with pediatric feeding disorders. She is the co-author of the award-winning Raising a Healthy, Happy Eater and author of Adventures in Veggieland and Responsive Feeding. Melanie’s advice has been shared in a variety of television and print media, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, CNN.com, and Parents Magazine. She lives in Colorado.

Melissa Breyer is the coauthor of True Food and is a Green Living columnist for Discovery Channel’s Treehugger.com.

Melissa King is the writer and photographer of her popular blog, My Whole Food Life, and her first book, DIY Nut Milks, Nut Butters & More. A vegetarian for 16 years, she went vegan and quit processed foods in 2012. She lives with her family in Dallas, Texas.

Melissa McLean Jory, MNT, is a nutrition therapist, with a degree in exercise science, and a certified yoga teacher, and has a personal interest and expertise in celiac disease, gluten sensitivity, and holistic health. She enjoys hiking, backpacking, telemark skiing, and yoga as part of what she considers her “freedom from disease” way of living. She takes her wholesome gluten-free lifestyle on the road, on the trail, or into the mountains and has found there’s no reason you can’t live an active (even rather extreme) lifestyle once you learn the necessary steps to clean out your body, start yourself on a healing path, and regain your energy and well-being.

Dr. Melissa Starling holds a PhD in dog behavior, personality, emotions, and cognition. The self-styled Creature Teacher, Melissa works as a dog trainer and behaviorist in Sydney.

Meredith Alexander Kunz is a writer, editor, and communications professional who has worked in journalism, higher education, and the technology industry. Her work has appeared in Newsweek, the San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Daily Journal, and The Industry Standard. Since 2016, she has published the Stoic Mom blog, exploring the many ways that caregivers and children can benefit from practicing Stoic life philosophy. She is a contributing editor for The STOIC magazine, and she has written for the Stoicism Today blog, given invited talks at national and regional conferences, and been interviewed on podcasts and NPR-affiliate radio.

Meta Chaya Hirschl took her first yoga class in 1978. Years later, after working in business, teaching in academia, and writing software manuals, she was drawn back to yoga after developing severe asthma. Her passion for yoga eventually led her to open a studio and later establish the YogaNow Teacher Training Apprentice Program, a nationally accredited curriculum incorporating a variety of traditions and styles. She teaches and lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Michael Scott-Baumann is a graduate of Cambridge University and has an MA from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. He has 35 years’ experience as a history teacher and lecturer. He has traveled widely in the Middle East and worked as a volunteer under the auspices of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, with whom he conducted field work on the West Bank. He lives in Cheltenham, England.

Michał Korkosz is a food writer and recipe developer and the creator of the Polish food website Rozkoszny (meaning “delightful”), which has earned two Saveur Blog Awards. He is also the author of Fresh from Poland: New Vegetarian Cooking from the Old Country, named a cookbook of the year by San Francisco Chronicle and Booklist, among other accolades. He is a food columnist for Przekrój Magazine and a contributor to the Polish edition of Vogue, and has appeared on NPR’s Morning Edition. Michał loves exploring food culture: He graduated with a degree in international relations and sociology, defending his theses on culinary diplomacy and politically shaped patterns of eating. He lives in Warsaw, where his heart belongs.

Michele Hutchison is the 2020 International Booker Prize–winning translator of The Discomfort of Evening. She lived and worked in Britain before moving to Amsterdam in 2004 where she now lives with her husband and two children.

Michelle Brody, PhD, is an executive coach and clinical psychologist with over 20 years of professional experience as a practicing therapist and a specialist in resolving relational conflict. Her background also includes extensive experience in teaching, coaching, and scientific research. She has served for more than a decade as a senior trainer for psychologists and a business consultant, teaching others what will (and won’t) catalyze lasting change. Dr. Brody is the founder of Coaching for Couples, an innovative practice for couples seeking time-efficient change.

Michelle Jurkiewicz, PsyD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and gender specialist in private practice in Berkeley, California. She has been providing therapeutic services to children, youth, and families since 2003. Dr. Jurkiewicz was an early pioneer in the work with transgender, nonbinary, and gender expansive youth. In addition to providing psychotherapy for people of all ages, she trains newer clinicians in using the Gender Affirmative Model.

Michelle P. Maidenberg, PhD, MPH, LCSW-R, is the president and clinical director of Westchester Group Works and cofounder and clinical director of Thru My Eyes Foundation. She also maintains a private psychotherapy practice. Her cognitive-behavioral therapy program is used with children and teens at Camp Shane and with young adults and adults at Shane Diet and Fitness Resorts. She teaches at New York University and has been quoted in The New York Times, Fitness, Parenting, and more.

Mick O’Hare, New Scientist production editor and “Last Word” column editor, has edited the #1 international bestseller Does Anything Eat Wasps? and its many successor books in the Last Word series.

Mike Askew, PhD, is a Professor of Primary Education at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. He was previously a Professor of Mathematics Education at King’s College, University of London, as well as a Visiting Distinguished Scholar at City College, City University New York. A former elementary school teacher, he now researches, speaks, and writes about teaching and learning primary mathematics. He is also a skilled magician.

Mike Higgins is a freelance editor and writer with over 20 years’ experience editing features, magazines, and supplements for UK national news media, publishers, and brands like The Independent, The Telegraph, The Guardian, and Lonely Planet.

Mike Parker Pearson is a professor at the University College London Institute of Archaeology and an internationally renowned expert in the archeology of death. The author of 16 books and over 100 academic papers, he led the Stonehenge Riverside Project from 2003 to 2009. He has appeared in the National Geographic Channel documentary Stonehenge Decoded and in the NOVA episode “Secrets of Stonehenge.”

Mike Vago is the creator of the bestselling The Miniature Book of Miniature Golf, The Pocket Book of Pocket Billiards, and the interactive board books Train and Rocket. He’s a graphic designer and a regular contributor to The A.V. Club. He tells people he lives in New York, but he actually lives in New Jersey.

Mira Flatt is a recipe developer who has worked intensively with Petra Bracht for the past eight years. She is a longtime vegan and has practiced intermittent fasting herself for the past six years. She lives in Bad Homburg, Germany.

Mita Mistry is a newspaper columnist and literary editor who has interviewed prolific authors, reviewed books from a variety of genres, and champions new authors, especially women. Mita practices mindfulness-based cognitive therapy and acupuncture, helping people from all walks of life. She delivers mental health and trauma education to hospitals, doctors, schools, workplaces, and domestic-abuse survivors. She loves to spend her spare time running, doing yoga, baking or eating cake, and making memories with her husband, family, and friends.

Molly Frisinger is the writer behind Lone Star Plate, the blog of vegan Texas, where she covers vegan food, lifestyles, communities, and activism from El Paso to Houston. She lives in Austin, Texas, with her husband and two cats, and she has strong opinions about chili (no beans!).

Molly McDonald Peterson has been a professional photographer for more than ten years, from the mountains of Aspen to the Virginia Piedmont. As the former director of photography for two regional food publications that celebrate local and sustainable food and farmers, she was a two-time finalist for the American Society of Magazine Editors’ annual “Best Cover” award. Molly is known for her food and farm shoots, and has contributed to multiple cookbooks, which she finds amusing since she used to think pancakes came from a box. She lives with her husband Mike, a chef-turned-farmer, in Sperryville, Virginia, where they raise pasture-based livestock on nearly 600 acres of leased land at Heritage Hollow Farms.

Monika Parciak completed training as a design assistant in Mönchengladbach, Germany in 1999. She has worked for more than 20 years as a graphic designer and illustrator—first at advertising agencies and now as a freelancer, and completed an advanced degree from FH Düsseldorf in illustration, editorial, and typography in 2008.

Nadine Horn is a vegan cookbook author and knows how to make food look really pretty. She’s also an avid pottery-geek and loves to throw clay around her small workshop. She and Jörg Mayer are the creators of EatThis!, the most popular vegan blog in all of Germany.

Naoki Inaba has invented over 400 new types of puzzle, and also writes sudoku and other popular puzzles for magazines in Japan, where he has published several books of area mazes for children and adults.

Glasgow-based writer and editor Natalie Whittle is a freelance contributor to the Financial Times, where previously she held editing roles across the magazine and arts sections of FT Weekend for fifteen years. She founded Outwith Books, an independent bookshop and writing space in Govanhill on Glasgow’s Southside that was open from 2019 to 2022.

Nathan Law is a pro-democracy activist and former legislator from Hong Kong, living in exile in London. A Nobel Peace Prize nominee and one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People of 2020, he is the author of the new book Freedom: How We Lose It and How We Fight Back.

Nelli Lahteenmaki is an engineer, entrepreneur, and musician who previously worked in sales.

Established in 1956, New Scientist is the fastest-growing and bestselling science magazine in the world, reaching over three million readers in print and digital. Its series of accessible popular science books, which debuted in 1994, has sold well over two million copies worldwide.

Nick Lomb was Curator of Astronomy at the Sydney Observatory for over thirty years (1979-2010). He continues to work as a consultant astronomer for the Sydney Powerhouse Museum and Sydney Observatory. He is the author of the Australian Sky Guide, published annually by the Powerhouse Museum, as well as several books on astronomy including Astronomy for the Southern Sky (1986) and the catalogue produced for the Powerhouse Museum’s exhibition on the 2004 transit of Venus, Transit of Venus: The Scientific Event that Led Captain Cook to Australia (2004).

Nicola Lathey is a pediatric speech and language therapist specializing in children under five. Nicola has worked all over the world, including England, Australia, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam. She is the founder of the Owl Centre, a private speech and language therapy clinic for children. She lives in Oxford, England, with her husband and daughter.

Nicole Helverson, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist in private practice specializing in depression, grief, eating disorders, and anxiety. She also has experience providing therapy in community behavioral health, inpatient psychiatric hospitals, and group practice settings. She attended the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, where she earned her doctoral degree in clinical psychology and master’s degrees in clinical psychology & counseling and clinical health psychology.

Nicolette Perry, PhD, specializes in pharmacognosy, the study of the medicine produced from plants. She has published and gives talks on medicinal plants for the brain and is the director of Dilston Physic Garden.

Nikola Sellmair graduated from Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich and has worked in Hong Kong, Washington, D.C., Israel, and Palestine. She has been a reporter in Hamburg at Germany’s Stern magazine since 2000. Her work has received many awards, including the German-Polish Journalist Award, for the first-ever article about Jennifer Teege’s singular story.

Nimali Fernando, MD, MPH, is a Virginia pediatrician and founder of the nonprofit the Doctor Yum Project, the popular recipe and parenting website doctoryum.com. The first of its kind, her innovative new practice, Yum Pediatrics, features a teaching kitchen and instructional garden, along with hands-on learning curricula for families, making it a hot-spot for nutrition education and cooking instructions. She is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Noel Brick, PhD, is a British Psychological Society–chartered psychologist, a lecturer in sport and exercise psychology at Ulster University, and a researcher on the psychology of endurance performance. He has published research in the most prestigious sport and exercise science journals, such as Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise (flagship journal of the American College of Sports Medicine) and Psychology of Sport and Exercise (flagship journal of the European Federation of Sport Psychology). He has presented his research at global academic conferences, including the annual congresses of the Association for Applied Sport Psychology, the British Psychological Society, the European College of Sport Science, and the European Federation of Sport Psychology. Noel has completed more than thirty marathons and ultramarathons. He is a native of Kerry and lives in County Antrim, Ireland.

Nora Rosendahl, Nelli Lahteenmaki, and Aleksi Hoffman are co-founders of the wellbeing YOU-app. Nora Rosendahl, an engineer who previously worked for some of the world’s largest companies, is the editorial engine behind the micro-actions on the app and in this book.

Olaf Fritsche is a science journalist and biophysicist with a PhD in biology. He was previously an editor at the German-language edition of Scientific American, is the author and coauthor of many books, and has been published in a wide variety of newspapers and magazines. He lives in Germany.

Oliver Sacks was a physician, a bestselling author, and a professor of neurology at the NYU School of Medicine. The New York Times referred to him as “the poet laureate of medicine.” As an author, he is best known for his collections of neurological case histories, including The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, and An Anthropologist on Mars. Dr. Sacks was a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and the New York Review of Books.

Oskar Jensen is an author and academic with a doctorate in history from Oxford University. He was named a BBC New Generation Thinker for 2022, and his previous books on British and European history have been published by Oxford and Cambridge University Presses. He is currently an arts and humanities fellow at Newcastle University.

Pahla Bowers is a certified weight-loss life coach for women over fifty, with over a decade of experience helping women make peace with their menopausal bodies. She is the host of the Get Your GOAL podcast and a prolific online content creator with expertise in women’s health, personal development, and menopause fitness. Mind Over Menopause is her first book. She lives in California.

Pamela N. Munster, MD, is a professor of medicine at the University of California San Francisco, where she is leader of the Developmental Therapeutics Program/Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, director of Early Phase Clinical Trials Unit, and coleader of the Center for BRCA Research. In addition to her laboratory research, she focuses on developing novel strategies to treat patients with incurable cancers as an oncologist. She serves on multiple local, national, and international committees focused on developing new treatments for cancer, authored textbooks, and is a frequent lecturer. A native of Switzerland, she leads breast awareness campaigns in the US, UAE, and India.

Patricia Roberts-Miller, PhD, is professor emeritus of rhetoric and writing, and the former director of the University Writing Center at University of Texas at Austin. She has been teaching the subject of demagoguery since 2002, and is the author of Demagoguery and Democracy, Speaking of Race, Voices in the Wilderness, Deliberate Conflict, Fanatical Schemes, and Rhetoric and Demagoguery. She lives in Texas.

Patti Breitman is the director of the Marin Vegetarian Education Group and a cofounder of Dharma Voices for Animals. She is the coauthor, with Connie Hatch, of How to Say No Without Feeling Guilty and, with Carol J. Adams, of How to Eat Like a Vegetarian Even If You Never Want to Be One. Patti is on the advisory council of the Animals and Society Institute and grows vegetables in her community garden. She teaches seasonal vegan cooking classes in Marin County, California, where she lives.

Paul Brown worked in theater (where he treasured every moment), a bit in television (not so much), and had a stint in “celebrity journalism” (seemed like a good idea at the time). For more than fifteen years he taught Special Education in Los Angeles. He met Tess Ayers several months before her wedding over three decades ago (then called a “commitment ceremony”). When the honeymoon was over, they collaborated on the first version of The Essential Guide to Gay and Lesbian Weddings. Paul was never married himself, but he knew how to plan a wedding. He died in 2021.

Paul Hamburger, originally from New York City, is a recent transplant to sunny Los Angeles, where he works as a creative director. Growing up in the streets of Brooklyn, Paul was an accomplished player of stoopball. As a Mets fan, he is bitter and resentful toward the relative success of other local baseball organizations. He lives in the past, nostalgic for the glory days of the mid‑eighties.

Professor Paul McGreevy is one of only three veterinarians recognized worldwide by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons as specialist in veterinary behavioral medicine. He is an animal behavior and welfare expert at Sydney University’s Faculty of Veterinary Science.

Pete Magill has coached his running clubs to 19 masters national championships. He’s a five-time USA Masters Cross Country Runner of the Year and the fastest-ever American distance runner over age 50 in the 5K and 10K. He is also the lead author of Build Your Running Body. He lives in South Pasadena, California.

Peter Bronski is the coauthor of Artisanal Gluten-Free Cooking and Artisanal Gluten-Free Cupcakes and founder of the blog No Gluten, No Problem. Despite his celiac disease, he enjoys adventure sports, is a former Xterra off-road triathlon U.S. national championship competitor, and is currently an ultramarathoner.

Peter Buckman has written books, plays, and scripts for film, television, and radio. He has been involved in the publishing industry for many years on both sides of the Atlantic, and he set up his own literary agency when he was in his sixties. Still With It! is his eighth book.

Peter Doherty is Laureate Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Melbourne. His pioneering research into human immune systems earned him the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine in 1996, which he shared with Rolf M. Zinkernagel. The following year he was named Australian of the Year and awarded a Companion of the Order of Australia (AO). He divides his time between Melbourne and Memphis.

Dr. Peter Gibson is Professor of Gastroenterology at Monash University and the Alfred Hospital. He is a world-renowned expert gastroenterologist in areas including the low-FODMAP diet, irritable bowel syndrome, and inflammatory bowel disease.

Peter Hellman, a New York–based journalist and author for more than 40 years, has been a contributor to Wine Spectator for more than a decade. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, New York magazine, and many others. His books include When Courage Was Stronger than Fear, Chief!, and Fifty Years After Kitty Genovese. He and his wife, Susan, live in New York City.

Peter Lehner, executive director of the Natural Resources Defense Council, also teaches environmental law at Columbia University Law School. Chief of the Environmental Protection Bureau of the New York State Attorney General’s office for eight years, he created and led New York City’s environmental prosecution unit.

Peter Popham has been an foreign correspondent and commentator for The Independent for over twenty years, reporting from Albania, Mongolia, South Asia, and now Italy. He is also the author of Tokyo: The City at the End of the World. Married with two children, Popham currently lives and works in both Milan and England.

Petra Bracht is a general practitioner and specialist in natural healing—in particular, nutritional medicine—and the author of many bestselling books. She heads the first private vegan health center in Bad Homburg, Germany. Over the past thirty years, she has observed how even people with very severe diseases have been able to heal themselves through intermittent fasting and a plant-based diet. Her goal is that everyone become aware of how much they can do proactively to prevent disease and live a healthy life. She lives in Bad Homburg, Germany.

Philip Hook has over forty-five years of expertise in the art market as a dealer and auctioneer, most recently as a board member and senior director of the Impressionist & Modern Art department at Sotheby’s in London. He has appeared regularly as an expert on the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow. With a degree in the history of art from Cambridge, Hook joined Christie’s in 1973, heading their 19th Century Paintings department from 1980 to 1987. He is the author of Popular Nineteenth Century Painting; five successful novels set in the art world; The Ultimate Trophy, a history of the Impressionist market and a Financial Times Book of the Year; Breakfast at Sotheby’s, named a Book of the Year by The Sunday Times, The Spectator, Financial Times, The Guardian, and Mail on Sunday; and Rogues’ Gallery: The Rise (and Occasional Fall) of Art Dealers, the Hidden Players in the History of Art.

Philippa Sandall is cocreator of the Seafurrers blog as well as coauthor of several books in the bestselling New Glucose Revolution series. She runs her own editorial consulting agency in New South Wales.

Rabbi Shira Stutman is the senior rabbi at Aspen Jewish Congregation and cohost of Chutzpod! with The Atlantic’s Hanna Rosen, a podcast that shares Jewish approaches to life’s great predicaments. In 2021, she founded Mixed Multitudes, an organization dedicated to sharing the beauty, power, and diversity of Jewish life, tradition, and conversation. She was named one of America’s Most Inspiring Rabbis by The Jewish Forward, among other awards. Rabbi Shira graduated from Columbia University and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, where she was a Wexner Graduate Fellow. She is also a proud graduate of the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School.

Rachel Boyett posts her family veggie and vegan recipes on her popular Instagram @littleveggieeats and blog littleveggieeats.com. She is a mother of three and a lifetime vegetarian. When she started weaning she quickly realized that rather than being an extra level of work, weaning was actually really fun and a great opportunity to get creative. Her own style of cooking and recipes has evolved as her family has grown and now she’s a firm believer in one meal for all the family.

Rachel Meltzer Warren, MS, RDN is a writer and nutrition counselor working with teens and adults in New York and nearby. She is the author of The Smart Girl’s Guide to Going Vegetarian and serves as a consultant for education programs like the Harlem Children’s Zone, where she develops and teaches classes on nutrition and wellness. She has contributed to Women’s Health, Shape, Vegetarian Times, Good Housekeeping, and more.

Rachel Sumner describes herself as a play-at-home mother of two. She previously worked as a children’s book rep, working with school libraries across Hawkes Bay, New Zealand. A former children’s book reviewer for the Marlborough Express, she currently reviews books for Australian Women’s Weekly. She lives in Auckland with her two wonderful girls and a ginger cat called Ginger.

Rachel Wilkerson Miller is the editor-in-chief of SELF and author of The Art of Showing Up and Dot Journaling—A Practical Guide. Previously, she was a senior editor at BuzzFeed and Vox and a deputy editor at VICE. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Huffington Post, and SELF, and she’s been a guest on NPR, the Today show, and Good Morning America. She lives in Brooklyn with her girlfriend.

Rachel Moritz is the author of the poetry collections Sweet Velocity and Borrowed Wave, which was a finalist for the National Poetry Series and the 2015 Minnesota Book Award in poetry. Her work has appeared in American Letters and Commentary, Colorado Review, Iowa Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Water-Stone Review, and other journals. Among her awards are grants from the Jerome Foundation and the Minnesota State Arts Board. Rachel lives with her partner and son in Minneapolis where she works as a teaching artist and content developer for museum projects. More at rachelmoritz.com.

Raffael Jovine trained in molecular biophysics and biochemistry at Yale, did his PhD in marine sciences at UC Santa Barbara, and completed research at MIT. In 2013, he founded and is now chief scientist for a company that uses seawater, sunlight, and wind to grow food in coastal deserts, replicating algal blooms. He is married with five children and lives in London.

Rakhmiel Peltz, PhD, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of Sociolinguistics in the Department of Communication at Drexel University and Founding Director of the Judaic Studies Program, which he led for twenty years. He is a developmental biologist who specialized in molecular and cellular biology and a Yiddish linguist who focuses on the social history of Yiddish language and culture. Currently, he is writing a book comparing standardizers in biomedical research and Yiddish language standardizers who fought for a secure future for the Jewish people in modern history.

Rasha Barrage was born in Iraq and grew up in northwest England. After studying law at Oxford University and completing a master’s at the University of Toronto, she worked for the United Nations Development Program before going on to train and work as a lawyer for eight years. She lives in London with her husband and three young children.

Rebecca Leffler is a writer and journalist who, after a career as the France correspondent for The Hollywood Reporter, has traded the red carpets of Paris for the green streets of New York, where she hosts events and offers branded entertainment services for wellness brands. Rebecca can be reached at her website, Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter.

Rebecca Lindberg, MPH, RDN, is a registered dietitian nutritionist, consultant, author, and speaker at Rebecca Lindberg, LLC.  With three decades of experience, she’s inspired countless individuals to embrace healthier lifestyles through her user-friendly tools and resources. As the co-founder of Rumblings Media®, LLC, Rebecca also empowers midlife women to live well and flourish through transformative online courses, events, travel experiences, and free content. Rebecca is passionate about helping women ditch dieting, simplify eating, achieve goals through a personalized approach, and find joy in food again.

Rebecca Schiller is cofounder and trustee of the human rights organization Birthrights and a regular contributor to The Guardian. She is also the author of Your No Guilt Pregnancy Plan and the children’s book Amazing Activists Who Are Changing Our World. On their small homestead in the English countryside, Rebecca and her family raise a motley crew of goats, geese, ducks, and chickens, and grow vegetables, fruit, and flowers to restore wildlife to the land. She lives in Kent, UK.

Reuben Proctor, a vegan for almost 15 years, has done translation, consulting, and administrative work for vegan companies and animal rights organizations since 2004. He was born in New Zealand and now lives and works in Germany.

Rich Landau is a co-owner of Vedge and Ground Provisions, modern vegetable restaurants that have earned rave reviews from diners and critics alike. Landau, along with his wife and partner Kate Jacoby, is a pioneer of vegan fine dining. He’s a six-time finalist for the James Beard Award and has received Best Chef and Best Restaurant nods from the Bon Appetit, Food & Wine, GQ and Philadelphia Magazine. He won an episode of the Food Network’s Chopped and is a recurring judge on Beat Bobby Flay. Together with Jacoby, he has written four previous cookbooks, including Vedge and V Street. He lives just outside his native Philadelphia.

Richard Strathmann, PhD, is an expert in the diverse patterns of animal development, with a particular focus on marine animals. He finds the beauty and variety of changes from eggs through embryos, larvae, and metamorphosis endlessly entertaining. He joined the faculty of the University of Washington in 1973.

Richard Wolf is an Emmy Award–winning composer, multi-platinum-selling music producer, and professor at the University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music, where he teaches classes on music and mindfulness. As a producer/remixer/songwriter/composer, Wolf worked on projects with Prince, Bell Biv DeVoe, Freddie Mercury, Seal, MC Lyte, and Coolio, and has been contributing to the soundtracks for hundreds of films and television programs including twelve seasons of the worldwide hit NCIS. He started practicing Zen meditation when he was a teenager.

Rikke Schmidt Kjærgaard is a scientist, mother of three, and cofounder of Graphicure, a start-up company developing software solutions that empower patients to better understand their disease and manage treatment. She is also cofounder and CEO of the Danish Science Club, a mentorship network for children and young adults. Prior to her illness, she was an associate professor at Aarhus University. She holds a PhD in science communication, with past positions as a postdoctoral fellow at MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit in Cambridge, UK, and at Harvard Medical School. In 2012, she was elected Member of The Young Academy under the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters.

Riley Black is the award-winning author of more than ten books about fossils, evolution, and dinosaurs. Her latest, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, won the AAAS/Subaru Prize for Excellence in Science Books, and her follow-up When the Earth Was Green will be published in 2025 by St. Martin’s Press. When not penning books, Riley regularly writes about fossils for a variety of publications such as National Geographic, Smithsonian, Slate, and more, with repeated appearances on radio and television programs such as All Things Considered, Science Friday, and NOVA. She has also acted as a science advisor on dinosaur projects for the Jurassic World franchise, and has given talks about the latest in paleontology at venues ranging from Yale University and the Houston Museum of Natural Science to the Tucson Festival of Books. She lives in Utah.

Rina Mae Acosta is a writer from California currently living in the Netherlands with her Dutch husband and two young sons. She founded the successful parenting blog Finding Dutchland.

Rob Eastaway has authored and coauthored several bestselling books that connect math with everyday life, including Why Do Buses Come in Threes? and How Many Socks Make a Pair? He is the director of Maths Inspiration, an interactive lecture program that has reached over 250,000 teenagers in England the last twenty years.

Dr. Robert Moses is the director of metabolic themes at the Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute, University of Wollongong. He is an internationally acknowledged authority on the topic of diabetes and pregnancy.

Rochelle Bilow is a food writer and a classically trained cook with a Grand Diplome in Classic Culinary Arts from the French Culinary Institute. As a staff writer at Bon Appétit, she interviews chefs and covers food trends and seasonal cooking. Her writing has also appeared in Edible Finger Lakes, USA Today, the Syracuse Post-Standard, Food Traveler, and others. She lives in Brooklyn.

Roman Krznaric is a public philosopher who writes about the power of ideas to change society. His books include Empathy, The Wonderbox, and Carpe Diem, and have been published in more than twenty languages. He studied at the Universities of Oxford, London, and Essex, where he received his PhD. He is a founding faculty member of The School of Life and is based in the UK.

Former model Rosemary Ferguson is a qualified naturopath who runs her own clinic on London’s Harley Street. She also writes for publications such as Vogue (UK) and Beauty Papers. Ferguson is a health-food champion who believes that what we put into our bodies should be both delicious and packed with goodness. She lives in the UK with her husband and three daughters.

Ross King is the author of many bestselling books on Italian history and art, including Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling and Brunelleschi’s Dome. He lectures widely on Renaissance art at museums including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Frick Collection, and the National Gallery, and is a regular participant in Italian Renaissance seminars at the Aspen Institute. He lives in the historic town of Woodstock, near Oxford, England.

Rowan Hooper is a senior editor at New Scientist magazine and host of the New Scientist Weekly podcast. After gaining a PhD in evolutionary biology, he moved to Japan and worked in a conservation biology lab, then a national newspaper in Tokyo, then Trinity College Dublin in a nanophysics lab. He is the author of Superhuman: Life at the Extremes of Mental and Physical Ability. His work has been published in the Guardian, Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Wired, and the Economist. He lives in London with his partner and two daughters. 

Ruby Ashby Orr made espresso for seven years and was known to drink up to six short blacks in a shift. Since then she’s moderated her caffeine intake (a little) and now edits books in between coffee breaks.

Ruth Field is a trial attorney and passionate runner who, while pregnant and under doctor’s orders not to run, decided to write Get Off Your Ass and Run! as an outlet for her frustration. The Grit Doctor is what you’ve been missing in your life. You just didn’t know it until now.

Ruth Mitchener is a multi-award winning designer for Crown Equipment. She also works independently, specializing in book design, graphic design, illustration, photography, and product design. She lives in Auckland, New Zealand.

Ruthie Fraser is a Structural Integration practitioner, yoga teacher, and movement guide. A graduate of the Guild for Structural Integration, Ruthie has been in private practice in New York City since 2007 and currently runs the Stack Your Bones Studio in Brooklyn. Ruthie has worked with hundreds of clients, blending Structural Integration with her developing movement methodology. She has trained extensively in yoga with many master teachers and has taught thousands of classes in the United States and abroad. She holds a degree in art and architecture history from Brown University. Ruthie is also a lifelong dancer, a long-time Iyengar Yoga student, and a budding Voice Dialogue facilitator. She lives in New York, splitting her time between Brooklyn and Hudson.

Ryoichi Murakami is the founder and CEO of El Camino, a premier cram school in Tokyo. Many of his students go on to elite schools such as the University of Tokyo, and compete in the International Mathematical Olympiad. In addition to teaching at El Camino, Murakami is active in publishing, works as a puzzle maker, and writes questions for the Olympiad.

Sage Rountree, PhD, E-RYT 500, is the co-owner of the three-studio Carolina Yoga Company and the author of eight other books, most recently coauthoring Teaching Yoga Beyond the Poses. Her teacher trainings draw students from around the world. She lives in Carrboro, North Carolina.

Sam Leith is literary editor at the Spectator and columnist for the Financial Times, Evening Standard, and Prospect. He has published writing in the Guardian, Times, and Literary Supplement, among others, and is the author of many books, including his most recent, the critically acclaimed book Words Like Loaded Pistols: Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama.

Samantha Cristoforetti is an Italian European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut, engineer, and former Italian Air Force pilot. She spent 200 days on the International Space Station (ISS) as part of Expedition 42/43. In March 2021, ESA announced that Cristoforetti will command ISS Expedition 68a when she returns in spring 2022. She was also the commander of NASA’s NEEMO 23 underwater research and exploration mission in 2019.

Sami Bayly holds a degree in natural history illustration from the University of Newcastle. She’s drawn to the weird and wonderful—finding the beauty and importance in all living things, regardless of their appearance—and is eager to share her appreciation with others. She lives in Newcastle, Australia. Visit her at SamiBayly.com.

Sandi Toksvig, OBE, is an award-winning writer, presenter, actress, and politician. She is often seen and heard on the BBC and has hosted several of its shows, including The Great British Bake Off (available in the US on PBS and Netflix), which she has co-presented since 2017. The author of more than twenty books and a regular columnist for the UK edition of Good Housekeeping, Toksvig is a “national treasure” (The Guardian). She was named Chancellor of the University of Portsmouth in 2012, and in March 2014 was awarded the prestigious title of OBE (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire). A true authority on successfully co-existing with others, Toksvig is now helping launch the Women’s Equality Party in the UK to campaign for women’s rights.

Sarah Harvey was living in Tokyo working as a freelance book scout and publishing consultant when she fell in love with Japanese culture and was introduced to Kaizen. After a life-changing time away, Sarah now lives in London, where she works for a literary agency and spends a not-insignificant portion of her time searching for a Japanese-standard bowl of tonkotsu ramen.

Sarah Samaan, MD, FACC, is a board-certified cardiologist at Legacy Heart Center in Plano, TX, and co-director of the Women’s Cardiovascular Institute at Baylor Heart Hospital. She is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology, and Texas Monthly magazine has consistently cited Dr. Samaan as a “Texas Super Doctor.” She has been quoted in Prevention, Shape, and Good Housekeeping. She lives outside Dallas, TX.

Sarah Kucera, DC, CAP, has been championing healthy practices professionally for over a decade, and personally for her whole life. A licensed chiropractor, certified Ayurvedic practitioner, registered yoga teacher and yoga therapist, and entrepreneur, she is the founder of Sage, a healing arts center and herbal apothecary in Kansas City, Missouri, where she combines these methods to help others find well-being. Sarah is the author of The Ayurvedic Self-Care Handbook and The Seven Ways of Ayurveda.

Sarina Jödicke has always had a passion for telling stories through images. As a freelance illustrator, she works with well-known companies from around the world. She lives in Berlin, Germany.

Sasha Gill is a vegan food blogger and medical student at Oxford University. Of Indian and Eurasian heritage, she grew up in Singapore and champions a vegan lifestyle for everyone.

Scott Douglas is a contributing writer for Runner’s World, and has held senior editorial positions at Runner’s World and Running Times. He is the author or coauthor of several books, including Running Is My Therapy, Strong Minds, Advanced Marathoning, and the New York Times bestsellers Meb for Mortals and 26 Marathons. He has written about fitness and health for Slate, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and Outside, among other outlets. Scott has run more than 100,000 miles since taking up the sport in 1979. He lives in South Portland, Maine.

Scott Mansfield, a native Hoosier, moved to California in the 1970s for college, and stayed on for the people, climate, and lifestyle. He has been making wine, beer, cider, mead, and all manner of fermented beverages at home for the last fifteen years, incorporating local ingredients whenever possible. Always drawn to the outdoors, he also enjoys gardening and cooking.

Seth B. Darling is the director of the Institute for Molecular Engineering at Argonne National Laboratory and a senior scientist at the University of Chicago.

Sharon Palmer, RDN, is a registered dietitian, editor of the award-winning health newsletter Environmental Nutrition, and a nationally recognized nutrition expert who has personally impacted thousands of people’s lives through her writing and clinical work. She lives outside of Los Angeles with her husband and two sons.

Dr. Sheil Shukla is an internal medicine physician and food artist who is passionate about the intersection of food, art, and medicine. His first cookbook, Plant-Based India: Nourishing Recipes Rooted in Tradition, is a 2023 James Beard Award nominee for Vegetable-Focused Cooking and a New York Times 2022 Best Cookbook of the Year. His work has been featured in The New York Times, Washington Post, Woman’s Day, NPR, Food52, Williams-Sonoma, and more. He lives in Chicagoland with his wife, Rachel, and son, Shrey.

Shonda Moralis, MSW, LCSW, is a women’s mindful empowerment coach and psychotherapist in private practice with over twenty years’ experience, specializing in stress-related disorders and women’s issues. Trained as a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction teacher in 2006, Shonda presents workshops and keynotes in numerous settings. Her award-winning first book, Breathe, Mama, Breathe: 5-Minute Mindfulness for Busy Moms, is a Parents magazine “Mom Must-Read.” She believes that when women feel strong, balanced, and empowered, they are capable of extraordinary accomplishments on the home front and out in the world at large. Shonda lives in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley with her husband and two kids, loves to play outside, and is perennially fascinated by what makes people tick.

Silvana Condemi, a world-leading paleoanthropologist, is the research director of CNRS, the largest French public scientific research organization, at Aix-Marseille University. She is the co-author of A Pocket History of Human Evolution and The Secret World of Denisovans.

Simon Whistler is a leading voice in the world of online education with over 10 million YouTube subscribers and billions of views, in a wide network of channels and podcasts such as Biographics, Megaprojects, and The Casual Criminalist.

Simone Egger writes for The Age Good Food Guide and Epicure. She used to wait tables and, for seven years, worked with a charming 1960s, stainless steel Faema E61, brewing Italian coffee to deliver little doses of happiness.

Sir Quentin Blake, CBE, is one of the most beloved illustrators in the world today. His distinctive drawings have graced more than two hundred books, including all of the children’s classics written by Roald Dahl. He formerly headed the illustration department of the Royal College of Art. He is the recipient of many awards; in 1999, he was appointed Children’s Laureate of Great Britain. He is better at drawing than he is at shaving. He lives in South Kensington, UK.

Sophia Kimmig researches how wild animals adapt to changing habitat conditions at an institute of the Leibniz Society in Berlin.  In lectures, journalism, and books, she pursues her goal of bringing people closer to the diversity and value of nature and creating acceptance for nature and species protection. She lives in Berlin.

Sophie la girafe was born in France on May 25, 1961. An undisputed star from the start, Sophie first made her way to America several decades ago, and has experienced a resurgence in popularity in recent years. The more than 30 million people worldwide who have purchased the teething toy help to make Sophie the most recognizable and beloved giraffe on earth.

Stacie Swift is an illustrator, author, coffee drinker, and mom to three young children. Her debut book, You Are Positively Awesome, featuring positive affirmations paired with colorful illustrations, was published in 2020. Through her work, she aims to promote positivity, self-care, and mental well-being. Her Instagram account (@StacieSwift) is hugely popular and her following continues to grow daily. She lives near Cambridge, UK.

Stefan Klein, PhD, a trained physicist, is a longtime and internationally acclaimed science writer and journalist. His many books include the #1 international bestseller The Science of Happiness and have been translated into twenty-five languages.

Stefan Lohr is a book designer and illustrator based in Ravensburg, Germany. Lohr studied communications and design at the University of Applied Sciences in Stuttgart, Germany and then became a freelance illustrator and graphic designer. Since 1999, he has worked as an illustrator for many renowned children’s book publishers and advertising agencies.

Dr. Sten Odenwald is an award-winning astrophysicist and prolific science popularizer who has been involved with science education for the COBE, IMAGE, Hinode, and InSight missions, as well as NASA’s Sun-Earth Connection Education Forum. He is currently the director of citizen science for the NASA Space Science Education Consortium at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

Stepfanie Romine is a writer, yoga teacher, and health coach who has lived and cooked on three continents. She lives in Flat Rock, North Carolina.

Stephanie Bogdanich blogs about vegan recipes, restaurant reviews, and Austin happenings at lazysmurf.wordpress.com. She enjoys whiling away her time in hammocks, especially in tropical locales, and although she loves breakfast tacos, she sometimes sleeps too late to get them.

Stephen M. Rosenthal, MD, is cofounder and medical director of the multidisciplinary UCSF Child and Adolescent Gender Center (CAGC), where he cares for young transgender clients. He also cares for pediatric clients with endocrine disorders, such as abnormalities involving thyroid function or growth and puberty. Dr. Rosenthal is one of four principal investigators for the Impact of Early Medical Treatment in Transgender Youth, a multicenter study sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. He is currently a member of the board of directors of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health.

DC-born, Paris-raised, and based in New York City since working on her first La Mama, ETC theater production in 2006, Storm Garner is a multi-disciplined artist—writer, filmmaker, designer, actor, musician—with a BA in Nonfiction Creative Writing from Columbia University and current student in Columbia’s Oral History Master’s Program. She created the video for the Queens Night Market’s first Kickstarter campaign and the stories included in this book are derived from her long-form interviews with participating vendors for her thesis The Queens Night Market Vendor Stories Oral History Project, which will be publicly archived at the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History.

Sue Sanders is a writer whose essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Psychology Today, the Los Angeles Times, Real Simple, Family Circle, Salon, Vox, USA Today, AARP’s The Girlfriend, The Rumpus, and other publications. She lives in Tucson, Arizona.

Sue Shepherd, PhD, is coauthor of The Complete Low-FODMAP Diet and author of The Low-FODMAP Diet Cookbook and The 2-Step Low-FODMAP Eating Plan. She is the director of Shepherd Works, Australia’s premier private dietetic practice specializing in dietary conditions. A dietitian and senior lecturer at La Trobe University (Melbourne), Dr. Shepherd is an invited speaker at national and international medical conferences and has authored over 20 medical journal papers. She is also the consultant dietitian for the Medical Advisory Committee to Coeliac Australia and is a Fellow of the Rome Foundation. She herself has celiac disease.

Susan R. Barry is a professor emerita of neuroscience and behavior at Mount Holyoke College. She is the author of Fixing My Gaze, named a best book of the year by Amazon and Library Journal, and Coming to Our Senses. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Big Think, and on Science Friday, Fresh Air, and Morning Edition. She lives in Massachusetts.

Susanne Foitzik is an evolutionary biologist, behavioral scientist, and international authority on ants. After completing her PhD in ant evolution and behavior and conducting postdoctoral work in the US, she became a professor at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. She now holds a chair at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany, where she studies the behaviors and social evolution of ants, with a particular focus on slavemaking ants. Her findings have been published in more than 110 scientific papers.

Tal Ben-Shahar, PhD, has written eight books, including the New York Times bestseller Happier and his latest, Happier, No Matter What. He is the cofounder of the Happiness Studies Academy and Potentialife. Ben-Shahar taught the largest course at Harvard, “Positive Psychology,” and the third largest, “The Psychology of Leadership,” attracting 1,400 students per semester—approximately 20 percent of all Harvard undergraduates. He obtained his BA and PhD from Harvard, and for the last twenty years has been teaching leadership, happiness, and mindfulness to audiences all over the world.

Tammi Kirkness is a life coach, corporate wellness speaker, and former clinician at a center for kids with learning difficulties. She is also the author of The Panic Button Book (for adults), which has been published in more than 8 countries since its release in October 2020. She lives in Sydney, Australia.

Longtime vegan chef and food scientist, Taymer Mason is the author of three cookbooks. An entrepreneur, Mason lives in Europe.

Tess Ayers has worked in advertising and graphic design, written for game shows, and was a producer on a number of television talk shows. When she and her partner Jane Anderson decided to have a wedding ceremony in 1992, they were unable to find a proper guide for gays and lesbians, and The Essential Guide to Gay and Lesbian Weddings was conceived and born two years later. In the years since then Tess has been busy raising their son, now 17, and works on the boards of several not-for-profit organizations. Tess, Jane, and Raphael happily divide their time between Los Angeles and Marin County.

Thacher Hurd has received the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award and the New York Times Best Illustrated Award. He cofounded Peaceable Kingdom Press in 1983.

Dr. Thomas Ramge thinks and writes at the crossroads of technology and economics, sustainability and society. He has published more than twenty nonfiction books, selling more than two million copies worldwide, including Who’s Afraid of AI?, On the Brink of Utopia, Reinventing Capitalism in the Age of Big Data, and The Global Economy as You’ve Never Seen It. His essays and articles appear in The Economist, Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, and Foreign Affairs. He holds a PhD in sociology of technology and is an Associated Researcher at the Einstein Center Digital Future. His work has been translated into twenty languages and has received numerous publishing awards, including the German Essay Prize 2022, the Axiom Business Book Award 2019 (Gold Medal, Economics), and the getAbstract International Book Prize 2018.

Tim Davis studied photography at Bard College, graduating in 1991. He pursued a career as a poet and editor in New York before returning to photography, receiving an MFA from Yale University in 2001. He has since had solo shows in Brussels, Geneva, Whitecube in London, Milan, and New York, including a recent exhibition at the Bohen Foundation. His work is in the collections of the Guggenheim, Whitney, Brooklyn, and Metropolitan Museums in New York; the Milwaukee Museum of Art; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; the Baltimore Museum; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; and numerous others. His fourth book of photographs and essays, I’m Looking Through You, was published by Aperture in May 2021. He teaches photography at Bard College.

Tim Horel and Lisa-Stander Horel are the writing and photography team behind the baking blog Gluten Free CanteenThe authors have been experimenting with gluten-free baking recipe development for over a decade. Their work has been published in Living Without magazine and a variety of online publications including Salon, Huffington Post, Joy of Kosher, GourmetLive.com, BlogHer Food, and more.

Tim Marshall is a leading authority on foreign affairs with more than 30 years of reporting experience. He was diplomatic editor at Sky News, and before that he was working for the BBC and LBC/IRN radio. He has reported from 40 countries and covered conflicts in Croatia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, and Israel. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Prisoners of Geography, The Power of Geography, The Age of Walls, and A Flag Worth Dying For. He is founder and editor of the current affairs site TheWhatandtheWhy.com.

Timothy Phillips holds a doctorate in Russian from Oxford University and has written and spoken widely on British and Russian history. He’s a contributor at BBC News and the Irish Times and the author of Beslan: The Tragedy of School No. 1 as well as The Secret Twenties: British Intelligence, the Russians, and the Jazz Age. He grew up in Northern Ireland and now lives in London.

Tobias Hürter studied mathematics and philosophy in Munich and Berkeley. He has written about science and philosophy for magazines and newspapers since 2000, including as an editor at MIT Technology Review and as cofounder of the philosophy magazine Hohe Luft. Now a permanent freelance editor at Die Zeit Magazin Wissen, he lives in Munich.

Toby Knobel Fluek (1926–2011) was born in the eastern Polish village of Czernica. In 1942, she and her family were forced by the Nazis into the nearby Brody ghetto. After her escape and years in hiding, she was married in 1949 and emigrated with her husband to New York, where she remained until her death. In 2018, The Florida Holocaust Museum added more than five hundred of Fluek’s artworks and personal items to its collection, and it continues to share her work in exhibitions and outreach programs. Fluek’s daughter, son-in-law, two grandsons and their wives, and four great-grandchildren also strive to ensure her extraordinary legacy.

Tom Schwartz runs the popular website The Run Zone, and is an exercise physiologist and coach.

Tonia Vojtkofsky, PsyD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and sought-after specialist in cognitive disorders at the forefront of healthcare. Dr. Vojtkofsky received her masters and doctorate in clinical psychology from Rosemead School of Psychology and did neuropsychological training at the University of California, Irvine Institute for Memory Impairment and Neurological Disorders as well as their Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. She is the founder of Cognitive Care Solutions in southern California, a clinic for people with MCI and mild dementia as well as healthy older adults. Currently, Dr. Vojtkofsky has a private practice; for more information, see her website, DrToniaV.com. She is a member of the American Psychological Association and UsAgainstAlzheimer’s and a founding member of WomenAgainstAlzheimer’s.

Tracey Blake is an experienced journalist and editor at the Daily Mail, where she writes the parenting blog Small Talk. She lives in Buckinghamshire, England, with her partner and their two children.

Tracey Murkett is a writer, journalist, and breastfeeding peer supporter. After following baby-led weaning with her own daughter, she wanted to let other parents know how enjoyable and stress-free mealtimes with babies and young children can be. She lives in London with her partner and their daughter.

TRISTAN GOOLEY is the New York Times–bestselling author of How to Read a Tree, How to Read Water, How to Read Nature, The Natural Navigator, The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs, The Secret World of Weather, and The Nature Instinct. He has led expeditions on five continents, climbed mountains in three, and is the only living person to have both flown and sailed solo across the Atlantic. His more than two decades of pioneering outdoor experience include research among tribal peoples in some of the remotest regions on Earth.

Trystan Reese is an established thought leader, educator, speaker, and the founder of Collaborate Consulting, which provides customized training in diversity, equity, and inclusion for individuals, organizations, and communities interested in social justice. A professionally trained anti-racism facilitator, he has been organizing within the trans community for nearly two decades. He is a 2021 Lambda Literary Fellow and has been featured in The Moth, People, and BuzzFeed. He is married to his partner Biff and they live in Portland, Oregon with their three kids: Lucas, Hailey, and Leo. They are very happy.

Uta Seeburg earned a PhD in literary studies and worked for many years as an editor at the German edition of Architectural Digest. There, she reported on design and travel and wrote numerous culinary essays. She now devotes herself entirely to writing books.

Valéry Tsimba is a Parisian who has long nurtured a passion for plants; her enthusiasm for gardening and thirst for knowledge led her to discover permaculture. She sets out to prove that anyone can harvest a vegetable garden with patience, observation skills, and motivation.

Velda De La Garza, MS, RDN, learned to cook from her grandmother, great aunts, mother, and father. A registered dietitian, she holds a master’s in nutrition from Texas Woman’s University and has taught at the University of Texas–Pan American and worked at the U of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Health Science Center. Her writing has appeared in Latina and Cooking Light. She lives in McAllen, Texas.

Vicky Reynal, MBA, is a psychotherapist in private practice and runs her own clinic specializing in financial therapy, working with clients internationally. She has been featured in the Financial Times, Daily Mail, Good Housekeeping, The Telegraph, and Women’s Health. Her focus on financial therapy grew organically after completing her MBA as well as post-graduate studies in psychodynamic psychotherapy. She lives in London.

Victor Cizek still owns a picture atlas he got as a kid on a trip to Washington, DC, and sees it as a source of inspiration for him to make this book, along with his visual arts background and geographically minded coauthor Matt. He grew up in and lives in northeast Ohio, represented by a steel mill on that old atlas.

Virginia Messina, MPH, RD, is coauthor of Vegan for Life and Vegan for Her and of the first textbook on vegetarian nutrition for medical professionals. She writes and speaks on vegan nutrition for both consumers and health professionals. Ginny serves on the advisory board of the Vegetarian Resource Group and on the board of directors of VegFund. She lives in Port Townsend, Washington, with her husband and an ever-changing population of rescued cats.

Volker Mehnert has worked for many years as a freelance journalist, travel writer, and author, and he has lived in Latin America, eastern Europe, and the US, where he has often followed in the footsteps of Alexander von Humboldt. His books about Mexico, California, Portugal, and the South Seas range from topics of tourism and culture to history.

Instagram cartoonist Wang xx (@an_ordinary_seal) has been drawing her lovable Seal character since 2013. Under her pseudonym, she has published three volumes of semi-autobiographical Seal comics in China, contributed to numerous anthologies, and created a line of Seal-branded products for soft-hearted humans. A professional illustrator, she is based in Shanghai.

Wendy Green is a health project coordinator and health promotor, and the author of a wide range of health books, including Anxiety: A Self-Hep Guide to Feeling Better, 100 Tips to Help You Through Menopause, The Happy Gut Guide, and The New Parents’ Survival Guide: The First Three Months.

Werner Holzwarth was born in 1947 near Stuttgart, attended school there, and then studied at the Berlin University of the Arts. Before finding international success as a children’s author with The Story of the Little Mole Who Went in Search of Whodunit, he worked as a copywriter, as the creative group head of a major advertising agency, and in South America as a freelance journalist. From 1995 to 2012, he was a professor of visual communications at Bauhaus University, Weimar. When not on tour to do readings of his books, he works in Frankfurt.

Wes Allison is the chief nutrition scientist and illustrator for The Taco Cleanse. Taco cleansing took his perspective on life from “meh” to “yeah!” He lives in Austin, Texas (where else?).

Will Butler-Adams is a chartered engineer and CEO of Brompton Bicycle Ltd. He has delivered talks for Google and PricewaterhouseCoopers. He lives in London.

William Martin, husband and father of two grown children, has been a student of the Tao for thirty-five years, and is the author of numerous other Tao-inspired books, including The Parent’s Tao Te Ching. A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, and Western Theological Seminary, he has worked as a research scientist for the Department of the Navy, a clergyman, and a college instructor in counseling, communications, and the humanities—and for many years, conducted workshops and seminars on the application of Taoist and Zen thought to the issues of everyday life. He can be reached at freedomsimplicityandjoy.com.

Yael Bloch initially discovered yoga seeking relief from back pain. A former engineer, she began training as a yoga teacher in New York in 2001 and completed her training at the École Française de Yoga in Paris. She has three children and lives in Bucharest, where she teaches yoga and meditation classes. She is a regular contributor to the French yoga journal Les Carnets du Yoga.