About Enge and Ambrose

a historic meeting between man and griffin inside the Nashville Parthenon (summer 2022)


That’s me, James Enge, above (on the right). I live in northwest Ohio with my wife and a relentless canine researcher. I’ve written Blood of Ambrose (shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award in 2010 and the Prix Imaginales in 2011), This Crooked WayThe Wolf Age, and  A Tournament of Shadows, a trilogy comprising Morlock’s origin story. I’ve also written a fair amount of short fiction, which has appeared in Black Gate, in the Stabby-Award-winning Blackguards, in ZNB anthologies such as Guilds & Glaives, in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and elsewhere.

Look for more Morlock stories this year in Tales from the Magician’s Skull.

In my day job, I teach Latin and various kinds of mythology (classical myth, Norse myth, medieval legend, etc) at a medium-sized public university in Ohio. Since Wikipedia knows, there is no reason you should not know that “Enge” is a “pseudoplume or nom de nym”; those interested in my not-so-secret identity can find it here.

Engeblog, which I’ve been updating more recently, is about whatever seems interesting to me at the time–classics, fantasy (and its subgenre science fiction), politics, astronomy, etc. The blog used to be mirrored at LiveJournal, years ago, but I didn’t like what the new owners of the site were up to and axed it.

You can also reach me on various social networks: on Facebook (as james.enge), on Mastodon(@jamesenge@mastodon.sdf.org) and (until it becomes completely Muskified) on Twitter (as jamesenge). Feel free to reach out to me at any of those places; I’m around.