Jack Peregrine

Jack Peregrine was born in Kent, ‘The Garden of England.’ His first encounter with fantasy literature came as he watched and listened to Bernard Cribbins read ‘The Hobbit’ on BBC Jackanory in 1979. A trip to his local library followed, where he checked out the book to enjoy for himself.

A love of Tolkien and his children’s classic fed naturally into reading ‘The Lord of the Rings.’ His bedroom was soon filled with hand-drawn reproductions of maps, runes, calendars and poems from Middle-Earth. Many of them were committed to memory and remain in his head to this day.

At the age of twelve, during the 1980s golden era of roleplaying games, he hooked up with school friends to form a Dungeons & Dragons group.

A writer all his life, despite busy non-literary careers living and working on three continents, Peregrine has authored books, poetry and articles in various genres under different names.

For a long time he resisted the urge to commit ideas for his own fantasy series to paper; choosing instead to hone his writing craft in other areas with over a million published words of experience.

Finally the moment came to pour out story concepts that had haunted him for years into a new world with its own mythos.

‘The Arisendia Chronicles’ formed the physical manifestation of those spectres.