Holly Ordway is the Cardinal Francis George Professor of Faith and Culture at the Word on Fire Institute and Visiting Professor at Houston Christian University. She holds a PhD in English from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is an Associate Member of the Oxford Tolkien Network and is the Charles Williams subject editor for the Journal of Inklings Studies. She is the author of Tolkien’s Faith: A Spiritual Biography and the award-winning Tolkien’s Modern Reading: Middle-earth Beyond the Middle Ages. Her other work includes, as editor, As Kingfishers Catch Fire: Selected and Annotated Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, and chapters in volumes such as C. S. Lewis at Poets’ Corner, The Inklings and King Arthur, C. S. Lewis’s List, Life on the Silent Planet, and Tolkien Among the Theologians.