Janet Brennan Croft is an Associate University Librarian at the University of Northern Iowa. She is the author of War in the Works of J. R. R. Tolkien (Praeger, 2004; winner, Mythopoeic Society Award for Inklings Studies). She has also written on the Peter Jackson Middle-earth films, the Whedonverse, Orphan Black, J. K. Rowling, Terry Pratchett, Lois McMaster Bujold, The Devil Wears Prada, and other authors, TV shows, and movies.
She is also editor or co-editor of many collections of literary essays, the most recent (before this one) being 'Something Has Gone Crack': New Perspectives on Tolkien in the Great War (Walking Tree, 2019) with Anna Röttinger. She edits the refereed scholarly journal Mythlore and is archivist and assistant editor of Slayage: The International Journal of Buffy+. You can follow her work on Academia.edu.
Jason Fisher is the editor of Tolkien and the Study of His Sources (McFarland, 2011), which won the 2014 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies.
With Salwa Khoddam and Mark R. Hall, he co-edited C. S. Lewis and the Inklings: Faith, Imagination, and Modern Technology and C. S. Lewis and the Inklings: Discovering Hidden Truth (Cambridge Scholars, 2012 and 2015). Fisher's work has appeared in Tolkien Studies, Mythlore, Beyond Bree, The Journal of Inklings Studies, Sehnsucht, and other journals, books, and encyclopedias. He can be reached through his occasional blog, "Lingwë-Musings of a Fish."