Dr. Jeana Jorgensen, author of Folklore 101 and Fairy Tales 101 among other books, has degrees in folklore from the University of California, Berkeley and Indiana University. She has taught at these universities along with Indiana University-Purdue University of Indianapolis and Butler University, where she currently teaches in the Department of History, Anthropology, and Classics. Dr. Jorgensen serves on the editorial board of the academic journal Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy Tale Studies and is a member of the American Folklore Society, the International Society for Folk Narrative Research, the International Society for the Fantastic in the Arts, and other scholarly organizations.

She is also a creative writer, having recently released her debut poetry collection The Thorn Key: Fairy Tales in Verse. Her poem “The Witch’s House” was nominated for the 2018 Rhysling Award, and her short dystopian story about reproductive rights, “The book you find when you really can’t afford to get pregnant,” won the Spider Road Press Feminist Flash Fiction Award of 2018. When not writing, she directs two dance troupes and performs as a soloist, wrangles her sourdough starter, and knits (badly). She promises she is not a fae queen in exile who is plundering human libraries until she can find the answer to a riddle that will let her return home.