Stephanie Lynn Budin (PhD. Ancient History, University of Pennsylvania) is an ancient historian who focuses on gender, religion, sexuality and iconography in ancient Greece and the Near East. She is a published author and has numerous articles on ancient religion, gender and iconography. She has lectured throughout North America, Europe, the Near East and Japan.

Anja Ulbrich is the A.G. Leventis curator of Cypriot Antiquities at the Ashmolean. She studied Classical Archaeology, Ancient History and History of European Art at Heidelberg University, and completed an MPhil in Classics (Greek archaeology) from the University of Cambridge. She holds a PhD with a thesis on sanctuaries of female deities in Cyprus during the Archaic and Classical periods.

Zach Shephard lives in Washington state, where he dreams up fantasy, science fiction and horror stories. His fiction has appeared in places like Fantasy & Science Fiction, the Unidentified Funny Objects anthology series, and several of Flame Tree Publishing's Gothic Fantasy books. For a full list of Zach's stories, check out zachshephard.com.