Roger C. Schlobin is a professor of English at the North Central Campus of Purdue University. He holds a Ph.D. in Medieval Literature and Languages from Ohio State University. He has authored six scholarly books and edited over fifty. His various other publications include over one-hundred essays, various poems, short stories, reviews, and bibliographies that range over such varied topics as fantasy literature, pedagogy, science fiction, medieval and Arthurian literature, feminism, shamanism, linguistics, and microcomputer hardware and software. He is one of the founders of the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts and its conference and of the "Year's Scholarship in Science Fiction and Fantasy." Currently, he is the editor of The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts.
When not writing or teaching, he dreams of a female dragon; tinkers with "Baby" (his souped-up 1977 Datsun 280Z); chases great food, drink, and riverwalks; takes occasional photographs; collects dragons and t-shirts; plays computer games; hangs out in a Northern Indiana hamlet; and still mourns the passing of his own silver-mackerel tabby, the great Joshua Thunderpussy.
Dr. Schlobin is also author of the electronic novel Fire and Fur: The Last Sorcerer Dragon - A fantasy and an epic love story of cats and dragons in the Gobi Desert.