Erika Gaffney has worked for more than two decades as an acquisitions editor in scholarly publishing, with an emphasis on early modern studies and/or art history. Currently she acquires books for Amsterdam University Press and Lund Humphries; until 2015, she was a publisher with Ashgate. In 2019, she launched the Art Herstory project, which supports the cultural movement to recover the stories and works of female artists of past centuries. Erika lives in northern Vermont.