Rosa Ainley is a writer and an editor at the Architectural Association. Her most recent book is 2 Ennerdale Drive: An Unauthorised Biography.

David Anderson is a freelance writer, photographer and entrepreneur based in Elephant and Castle, London.

Houman Barekat is the editor of Review 31. He is co-editor, with Mike Gonzalez, of Arms and the People: Popular Movements and the Military from the Paris Commune to the Arab Spring.

Jonathan Barnes is the author of two novels, The Somnambulist and The Domino Men.

Dan Barrow is a poet and critic based in south-east London. He has written for The Wire, Plan B, The Quietus and others. His poetry was included in the Salt Book of Younger Poets.

Robert Barry is a freelance writer and composer based in Paris.

Douglas Battersby is a freelance writer and graduate student based in London.

Steffen Böhm is Director of the Essex Sustainability Institute and Professor in Management and Sustainability at the University of Essex.

Simon Behrman is a PhD researcher and sessional lecturer at the School of Law, Birkbeck College. He is the author of Shostakovich: Socialism, Stalin and Symphonies.

Liam Murray Bell is a writer based in Sussex. He is author of So It Is, a novel about the role of women in the Northern Irish Troubles, and co-editor of the essay collection Writing Urban Space.

Ian Birchall is a historian and translator. His most recent book is Tony Cliff: A Marxist for his Time.

Alan Bowden is a Philosophy PhD researcher at Durham University. He reviews fiction at the Words of Mercury blog.

Sam Caleb is a graduate student of modern and contemporary literature based in London. He reviews and writes non-fiction and fiction.

Gareth Carrol is a graduate student in applied linguistics. He has contributed to numerous journals including the Spokesman and the Asian Journal of English Language Teaching.

Amanda Civitello is a freelance writer based in Chicago. A graduate of Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois), she holds degrees in art history and political science.

Rebecca Close is a writer and critic based in Barcelona where she is a graduate student on the Independent Studies Programme at the University of Barcelona and MACBA Museum. She is currently working at the editorial desk in Spain for ArtAsiaPacific Magazine.

David Convery is a London-based historian and the editor of Locked Out: A Century of Irish Working-Class Life, forthcoming from Irish Academic Press.

Jemma Crew is a freelance writer based in London.

Tom Cutterham is a graduate student in US history at St Hugh's College, Oxford and Review 31's interviews editor.

Sara D'Arcy is a freelance journalist based in London. She likes books, cats, and red wine, more or less in that order.

Eli Davies is a London-based teacher and writer. She has written about culture, media and politics for New Left Project, the f-word and Open Democracy, and is currently writing her first novel.

Alasdair Dick completed his MPhil in Modern European History at the University of Cambridge in 2011 and now works for a publishing house in London. He reviews and writes fiction and non-fiction.

Sarah Emily Duff is a National Research Foundation postdoctoral research fellow in history at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. She writes about the history, politics, and culture of food and eating at www.tangerineandcinnamon.com.

Matt Ellison is a freelance writer based in the South West of England.

Paul Ennis completed his PhD in philosophy at University College, Dublin in 2011. He is the author of Continental Realism and Post-Continental Voices: Selected Interviews.

Marc Farrant is a contributing editor at Review 31.

Hugh Foley is a graduate student of modern and contemporary literature. He lives in London.

Alexis Forss ompleted his MRes in English Literary Studies at the University of Southampton in 2012. He is a PhD researcher at Brunel University.

Lena Friesen is a graduate of Ryerson University, Toronto, and writes the blog Music Sounds Better With Two. She is based in London.

Louis Goddard is an MPhil student at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He plans to start a PhD in English at the University of Sussex in September 2013.

Mike Gonzalez is Emeritus Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Glasgow.

Kate Gould is a writer, campaigner for sex workers' rights at SCOT-PEP and commissioning editor at The Fine Line. She is the author of Exposing Phallacy, a study of flashing in contemporary culture.

Marjorie Gracieuse is a Leverhulme Research Fellow at the University of Warwick, working on a project on bio-ethics and bio-politics. She has written her PhD thesis on Deleuze and the problem of Hierarchy, and is currently preparing a book on Deleuze, Artaud and the Crowned Anarchy of Desire.

John Green is a freelance journalist based in London. He is the author of several books, including a biography of the radical artist Ken Sprague and a recent biography of Friedrich Engels.

Callam Green is a freelance writer & researcher based in Stratford-upon-Avon.

Samuel Grove is a PhD researcher with the Centre for Critical Theory at the University of Nottingham. He has written for various publications including Tribune Magazine and Red Pepper, and is a regular contributor to the New Left Project.

Mary Hannity is an assistant editor at The White Review. Her reviews have previously appeared in The Spectator.

Daniel Hartley is a literary critic, currently writing his PhD at the University of Giessen, Germany. He blogs at Thinking Blue Guitars.

Jeff Heydon is a PhD researcher at Goldsmiths, University of London and a Sessional Instructor at the Centre for Communication, Culture and Information Technology, University of Toronto.

Matt Hill is a freelance writer based in London.

Francis Hutton-Williams is an Amelia Jackson scholar at the University of Oxford, where he is completing his doctorate.

Matthew Ingleby teaches literature and film at University College London. He has published articles on diverse topics including the role of locality in utopia, building plots, and Victorian Bloomsbury bachelordom, and is co-editor of a forthcoming essay collection entitled GK Chesterton, London and Modernity.

Phil Jourdan is a musician, translator and PhD researcher living in the UK. His latest book, Praise of Motherhood, is published by Zero Books.

Sarah Keenan teaches law at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Joe Kennedy teaches literature and theory at various universities on the South Coast of England. He has written about literature, music, politics and football for publications including the Times Literary Supplement, the Quietus and The Oxonian Review. He lives in South London.

Robert Kiely is a poet, critic, and book reviewer, currently completing a PhD and tutoring at Birkbeck College, University of London.

Matt Lewis is a freelance writer based in London. He writes and reviews fiction and non-fiction.

Andre van Loon reviews literary fiction for magazines and websites including litro.co.uk, newbooksmag.com and welovethisbook.com. He graduated from the University of Edinburgh with an MA in English Literature & Russian Studies, and lives in London.

Marika Lysandrou is a freelance writer and postgraduate student at University College London.

Jamie Mackay is a writer and journalist. He is currently the Assistant Editor of OurKingdom, the UK politics arm of openDemocracy.

Mélissa Mahi is a graduate student in publishing at University College London.

Zeljka Marosevic works in publishing. She writes fiction and poetry.

Helen McClory is a writer and reader living in Edinburgh. She blogs at http://schietree.wordpress.com/

David Morgan is a journalist, historian and human rights campaigner, and secretary of the Socialist History Society.

Andy Murray is a research student in history of art at University College London.

Luke Neima is Review 31's fiction editor.

John Newsinger is a Senior Lecturer in history at Bath Spa University, and the author of The Blood Never Dried: A People’s History of the British Empire.

Tony Norfield is a PhD researcher with the department of economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.

Benjamin Noys teaches critical theory at the University of Chichester. He is the author of Georges Bataille: A Critical Introduction and The Persistence of the Negative: A Critique of Contemporary Continental Theory.

Lilly O'Donnell is freelance writer based in New York. She is currently working on her first book, a biography of her deceased artist father, a memoir of researching him, and a study of art in life.

Hugh O'Shaughnessy is a Guardian journalist and author.

Mark Olden Mark Olden is a journalist, TV producer and author of Murder in Notting Hill.

Nicolas Padamsee is a freelance writer based in London. He writes and reviews fiction.

Alexandra Pett is a freelance journalist based in London.

Jeffrey Petts is a PhD researcher with the department of philosophy at the University of York.

Steve Platt is a freelance writer and a former editor of the New Statesman.

Pascal Porcheron is a freelance writer and publisher based in Cambridge.

Nina Power is a Senior Lecturer in philosophy at Roehampton University. She is the author of One Dimensional Woman and has co-edited Alain Badiou's On Beckett and his Political Writings.

Theo Reeves-Evison is a graduate student at the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London.

David Renton is a barrister and the author of CLR James: Cricket’s Philosopher King.

Abigail Rhodes is a writer and publishing executive at the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation.

Aaron Sams is a freelance writer and politics student based in London.

Richard Sharpe is a senior lecturer with the journalism department at the University of East London and a senior associate of the London East Research Institute.

Veronica Simmonds is a researcher, writer and broadcaster based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Her work is focused on semiotics and the media.

Tom Snow is a freelance writer and researcher usually based in London.

Jeremy Spencer completed his PhD in art theory at the University of Essex and teaches at the Colchester School of Art and Design.

Tom Steele is a Senior Research Fellow with the School of Education at the University of Glasgow. His latest book, with Richard Taylor, is British Labour and Higher Education 1945 - 2000: Ideology, Policy and Practice.

Frith Taylor is a freelance writer based in London. She reviews and writes fiction and poetry.

Sebastian Truskolaski is a PhD reaseacher at Goldsmiths, University of London London. His research focuses on the work of Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin and Karl Marx.

Lewis Turner is a London-based writer. He has spent time as a journalist in Palestine and Egypt.

Giovanni Vimercati is a journalist and media analyst at Heavy Symbols (www.heavysymbols.com).

Stuart Walton is author of A Natural History of Human Emotions, Out Of It: A Cultural History of Intoxication, and the forthcoming In The Realm of the Senses: A Materialist Theory of Seeing and Feeling. He also writes on food and wine.

Belinda Webb is a writer and critic and has written for the Guardian, Tribune, the Times Literary Supplement and New Humanist. She lives in London.

Luke White teaches the history of art, design and visual culture at Middlesex University and Birkbeck College. He has recently contributed to various journals including Radical Philosophy and Tate Papers, and with Claire Pajaczkowska edited the book The Sublime Now.

Gee Williams is a poet, playwright, novelist and broadcaster. Her most recent book is A Girl's Arm.

Zoe Williams is a columnist on the Guardian, and author of Bring it on, Baby.

Abigail Williams is a freelance writer and researcher based in London.

David Winters is a literary critic. He has written for the Times Literary Supplement, Bookforum, Radical Philosophy and others. He is a co-editor at 3:AM Magazine.