Marjorie Burns was born and raised in Portland, Oregon, the youngest of three—or four if you count the family dog. She taught high school for two years in Montreal, Canada, before starting graduate school, first at Portland State University and then moving to the University of California, Berkeley, where she earned her Ph.D. with a dissertation on fantasy and children’s literature in nineteenth-century England. She spent most of her teaching career at Portland State University but has also taught in England and twice in Norway (the second time as a Fulbright Scholar).
Her published scholarship focuses mostly on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien and British writers who influenced Tolkien. Her book, Perilous Realms: Celtic and Norse in Tolkien’s Middle-earth, is available through the University of Toronto Press. She is now retired from university teaching and lives at the base of a Cascade mountain, where woods and waterways and half-deserted roads are waiting to be explored. Her dogs are always along.
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