Our second issue of The Second Shelf: Rare Books and Words By Women was published in 2019 and continued with the same goal of issue one. This issue also had a focused portfolio on the work of Angela Carter.

Contributors: Arifa Akbar, Abigail Bainbridge, Claire-Louise Bennett, A. N. Devers, Hisaji Hara and Natsumi Hayashi, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, Daisy Johnson, Natalie Kay-Thatcher, Fiona Lensvelt, Sarah Libman, Ellen Lindner, Sharmaine Lovegrove, Jane Mount, Christina Oakley Harrington, Lucy Scholes, Joanna Scutts, Posy Simmonds, Sharlene Teo, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Joanna Walsh, Khaliah Williams

Publisher and Editor: A. N. Devers, Managing Editor: Lucy Scholes, Designer: Nele Wellens, Photographer: Jo Emmerson

Issue 2 Catalogue Editors: Grace Barham, Kathryn Hyde, Natalie Kay-Thatcher, Pema Monaghan, Lauren LaTulip, Niamh Stroud

Advisory Board: Nicole Antebi, Gabrielle Bellot, Sinéad Gleeson, Lauren Groff, Sophie Hunter, TJ Jarrett, Morgan Jerkins, Laura Lippman, Elizabeth McCracken, Susan Scarf Merrell, Laurie Muchnick, Roachele Negron, Audrey Niffenegger, Nadxi Nieto, Lara Prescott, Dorthe Nors, Lucy Scholes, Marisa Siegel, Cheryl Strayed, Rachel Syme, Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, Dr. Amara Thornton, Joanna Walsh, Jesmyn Ward, Sarah Weinman, Khaliah Williams

Printed by Calverts, a Workers Co-operative, formed in East London, in 1977. Their name is an homage to Giles & Elizabeth Calvert, radical printers and publishers during the English Revolution of the 1640s.