Daniel Starza Smith is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern English Literature (1500-1700) at King's College London, having previously held roles at University College London, the University of Reading, and Lincoln College, Oxford, where he was British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow. His books include John Donne and the Conway Papers (based on a PhD supervised by Henry Woudhuysen), Manuscript Miscellanies in Early Modern England (edited with Joshua Eckhardt), and contributions to the Verse Letters volume of the landmark Donne Variorum. He is General Editor of the Oxford edition of Donne's prose letters and co-director of the Unlocking History research group.

Hazel Wilkinson is Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) in English Literature at the University of Birmingham, where she teaches early modern and eighteenth-century literature. Her monograph, Edmund Spenser and the Eighteenth-Century Book (2017), based on a PhD supervised by Henry Woudhuysen at UCL, won the 2020 Isabel MacCaffrey Award from the International Spenser Society. She is a member of the editorial team of the Oxford Edition of the Writings of Alexander Pope, and the founder of the database of ornamental typography Compositor. She was awarded fellowship of the Alan Turing Centre in 2020-22 for her work on applying computer vision to the study of typography.