Emma Goldman (1869-1940) immigrated to the United States from Russia as a teenager before being deported in 1919 for her revolutionary activities. She spent her adult life writing, lecturing, and struggling on behalf of the anarchist ideal. She edited Mother Earth and wrote numerous essays and books, including Living My Life and My Disillusionment in Russia.

Jessica Moran was assistant editor of Emma Goldman: A Documentary History, and co-editor of Alexander Berkman's Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist. She is a member of the Kate Sharpley Library collective and is a librarian and archivist currently living and working in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Barry Pateman was associate editor of Emma Goldman: A Documentary History, editor of Chomsky on Anarchism, and co-editor of Alexander Berkman's Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist. He is a historian and member of the Kate Sharpley Library collective.

Hippolyte Havel (1871-1950) was a Czech anarchist at the center of New York's political and artistic circles at the turn of the twentieth century. He was an editor of numerous publications, including Emma Goldman's Mother Earth and his influence on several writers, artists, and intellectuals helped shape American modernism.