Martin Garrett is an independent writer. He has contributed to the Palgrave Literary Dictionaries series as the author of The Palgrave Literary Dictionary of Byron (2010, joint winner of the Elma Dangerfield Prize of the International Association of Byron Societies for 2011), The Palgrave Literary Dictionary of Shelley (2013) and The Palgrave Literary Dictionary of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2019). His other work on Romanticism includes, for Palgrave, A Romantics Chronology, 1780-1832 (2016, winner of the 2017 CILIP Knowledge and Information Management Information Resources Award) and, for the British Library Writers' Lives series, volumes on Byron, Mary Shelley and the Brownings. He has also worked on Beowulf; Renaissance literature and drama; and cultural and literary guides to Greece, Italy, Provence, the Loire, Oxford and Cambridge.