Ruth Maxey is Associate Professor of Modern American Literature at University of Nottingham, UK. Her publications include The Collected Short Stories of Bharati Mukherjee (2023), 21st Century US Historical Fiction (2020), Understanding Bharati Mukherjee (2019), India at 70 (2019), and South Asian Atlantic Literature, 1970-2010 (2012).

Daniel Robert King is Teaching Fellow in American Literature at University of Leicester, UK, and author of Cormac McCarthy's Literary Evolution (2016). His work has also appeared in the Journal of American Studies, Open Library of Humanities, and Marilynne Robinson (2022).