Autor/-in: Stella Halkyard

Dyed in the wool archivist and omnivorous bookworm, Stella Halkyard has worked in libraries and archives across Manchester, UK since 1984, including: the Portico, Chethams, the Documentary Photography Archive and Manchester Public Libraries. The lion's share of her career, however, has been spent in the John Rylands Library where she cultivated the literary archives and creative arts collections and nurtured their readership and use. Since 2006 her essays enumerating some of the Rylands' gems have been published in the ' Pictures from a Library' and ' Archive Corner' series in PN Review.