Dr Nicola Talbot has a first class honours degree in Mathematics (University of Essex, 1991) and a PhD in Electronic Systems Engineering (University of Essex, 1996). She also has a Diploma in Creative Writing (University of East Anglia, 2011) and is a joint member of the TeX User Group (TUG) and the UK TeX User Group (UK TUG). She has taught LaTeX and has written a number of LaTeX classes and packages available on the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN) including the datatool and glossaries packages.
""It is rather difficult to write a book interesting for both novices and more experienced TeXnicians. Nicola Talbot has this rare skill: while the explanations are lucid and should be understandable to all users, some tricks (like the use of \@afterheading to overcome LaTeX's tendency to redefine \everypar) are not trivial and could be quite illuminating even to seasoned TeX programmers."" Boris Veytsman, TUGboat, Volume 37 (2016), No. 1. (http://tug.org/books/reviews/tb115reviews-talbot.html)