Mary Beard is a professor of classics at Cambridge University and the author of the bestselling SPQR, Women & Power, and the National Book Critics Circle Award–nominated Confronting the Classics. A popular blogger and television personality, Beard is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books.

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Kim Bearden is the cofounder, executive director, and language arts teacher at the Ron Clark Academy, an internationally renowned middle school and educator training facility. She resides in Atlanta with her husband, Scotty, and daughter, Madison.

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Maddalena Bearzi is president and cofounder of Ocean Conservation Society. She holds a PhD in biology and a postdoctorate from UCLA, and she has been involved in studying marine mammals, with a conservation bias, since 1990.

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Amy Beashel lives in Shropshire with her husband and two kids. Her debut novel The Sky is Mine was nominated for a CILIP Carnegie Medal 2021, longlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2021, and shortlisted for the Bristol Teen Book Award 2020. Incidentally, she is also the fastest woman in the world on a space hopper.

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Doug Beason is a Nebula Award finalist whose fiction has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies.

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Jamie Beaton is the author of Accepted!: Secrets to Gaining Admission to the World's Top Universities.

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Owen Beattie is a professor of anthropology at the University of Alberta. He has contributed to many forensic investigations in Canada, as well as to human rights and humanitarian projects in Rwanda, Somalia, and Cyprus.

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Melody Beattie, one of the seminal figures in the recovery movement, is the author of the international bestseller Codependent No More.

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Bob Beatty is a historian and musician who has worked in museums and nonprofits for more than twenty-five years.

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Peter Beauclerk-Dewar is a direct descendent of the bastard offspring of Charles II and Nell Gwyn. He is a heraldic consultant to Christies, has previously been an editor for Burke's Peerage & Gentry, and is a fellow of the Scottish Society of Antiquaries.

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Marie-Nathalie Beadoin, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and the founder of Skills for Kids, Parents, and Schools (SKIPS). She lives in Sunnyvale, California.

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Andrew Beaujon is a senior editor at Washingtonian magazine in Washington, DC. He also has worked as a music critic for Spin, a recipe editor for Martha Stewart Living, and as the managing editor of Washington City Paper, and is the author of Body Piercing Saved My Life.

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