Matthew Oliver is Professor of English at Campbellsville University, USA. He teaches and researches 20th and 21st-century British literature, the fantastic (with a focus on epic fantasy), and the grotesque. He has previously published Magic Words, Magic Worlds (2022), a stylistic analysis of epic fantasy, as well as articles about fantasy action scenes and writers such as Steven Erikson, Stephen R. Donaldson, and Robin Hobb.