Holly Ordway is the Cardinal Francis George Professor of Faith and Culture at the the Word on Fire Institute and Visiting Professor of Apologetics at Houston Christian University. She holds a PhD in English from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and is a Subject Editor for the Journal of Inklings Studies.
Her book Tolkien’s Modern Reading: Middle-earth Beyond the Middle Ages (Word on Fire Academic, 2021) received the 2022 Mythopoeic Society Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies.
Her newest book is Tolkien’s Faith: A Spiritual Biography, which was released in time for the 50th anniversary of Tolkien’s death on September 2nd, 2023. For additional details and video interviews, see the publisher’s page for the book; you can also buy it on Amazon US & Blackwell’s Books in the UK as well as on Amazon UK.
Her other books include Tales of Faith: A Guide to Sharing the Gospel through Literature; Apologetics and the Christian Imagination: An Integrated Approach to Defending the Faith; and, as editor, As Kingfishers Catch Fire: Selected and Annotated Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins. She has also contributed chapters on C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien to volumes such as Life on the Silent Planet: Essays in Christian Living from C.S. Lewis’s Ransom. Trilogy, C.S. Lewis in Poets’ Corner, The Inklings and King Arthur, and C.S. Lewis’s List.
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