Alessandro Carrera is Moores Professor of Italian Studies and World Cultures and Literatures at the University of Houston, Texas. He has translated the songs and prose of Bob Dylan into Italian, including Chronicles, Volume One and Tarantula, and authored La voce di Bob Dylan.
Britt Eisnor is a writer and researcher. Britt graduated from Emerson College in 2019 with a BA in Visual Media Arts Production, and works in museums. She has spoken about Dylan to the Wall Street Journal and Definitely Dylan podcast, and posts about Dylan on Instagram.
Michael Gray is a critic, writer and public speaker. His book Song & Dance Man: The Art of Bob Dylan (1972), was the first critical study of Dylan’s work. The massive third edition Song & Dance Man III was first published in 1999. He has also authored Bob Dylan Encyclopedia (2006) and Hand Me My Travelin’ Shoes: In Search of Blind Willie McTell (2007).
Bill Lattanzi is a playwright, video editor, and writer. His essays have appeared in Los Angeles Review of Books and WBUR’s Cognoscenti, and he has presented on Bob Dylan and Sam Shepard. He is a past Hall Humanities Fellow at U. of Kansas, a Knight Fellow in Science Journalism at MIT, and holds a master’s degree in creative writing from Boston University.
Griffin Ondaatje is a writer and documentary filmmaker. His essay “Highway to the Sea” was published in BOB DYLAN: Mixing Up the Medicine. His books include The Mosquito Brothers and The Camel in the Sun. Currently he is writing Half Wild, a book of essays and interviews on Dylan’s music. He lives in Toronto with his family.
Thomas G. Palaima is Robert M. Armstrong Professor of Classics at University of Texas, Austin and a MacArthur fellow. He has written over 500 commentaries, reviews, features, and poems. These have appeared in the Times Higher Education, Michigan War Studies Review, Arion, The Texas Observer, the Los Angeles Times, and commondreams.org.
Craig Proctor has been published in literary journals including Blood & Aphorisms and Brick. He co-directed the documentary film Complete Unknown (2003), and co-wrote You Shoot Me in a Dream, a monograph on Harvey Keitel.
David Sheftman is a native New Yorker whose abiding loves are his wife and daughter, the literary arts, baseball, and folk music. He teaches English composition courses full-time at Cabrillo College in Aptos, CA, and outside of teaching enjoys singing and playing “A Hard Rains A-Gonna Fall” on acoustic guitar.
