Azelina Flint is a Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Creative Writing at Lancaster University. Her first book, The Matrilineal Heritage of Louisa May Alcott and Christina Rossetti, was supported by the Fulbright American Studies Fellowship and recovers the influence of Alcott’s and Rossetti’s mothers and sisters on their work. It appears in Routledge’s Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature (2020). Azelina has published articles on the Alcotts in Comparative American Studies and Horror Studies (forthcoming). She organized the first international conference on May Alcott Nieriker at Université Paris Diderot in 2018.

Lauren Hehmeyer is retired from Texarkana College. She has published in the fields of library science, education, and literature and received multiple grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. She presented at the Thoreau Bicentennial Celebration in Concord, Massachusetts, and at the ＂Recovering May Alcott Nieriker＂ conference in Paris. Her paper on the genius of Louisa May Alcott and May Alcott Nieriker appears in American Studies Journal. Hehmeyer is a popular speaker on both the Alcotts and Thoreau.