Joab Stieglitz was born and raised in the Warren, New Jersey. He is an Application Consultant for a software company.  He has also worked as a software trainer, a network engineer, a project manager, and a technical writer over his 30 year career. Joab is an avid tabletop RPG player and game master of horror, espionage, fantasy, and science fiction genres, including Call of Cthulhu, Savage Worlds (Mars, Deadlands, Agents of Oblivion, Apocalypse Prevention Inc, Herald: Tesla and Lovecraft, Thrilling Tales, and others), Lamentations of the Flame Princess, Dungeon Crawl Classics, Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (2nd Edition) and Pathfinder. Joab has published four novels so far in the Utgarda Series of pulp adventure novels with Lovecraftian influences set in the 1920’s and 1930’s. He has also written short stories about occult investigators, colonizing Venus, and the Luckiest Woman in the World. Joab has a Bachelor of Arts degree in German Language and Literature from Rutgers University, and a Masters of Science in Organization and Management with a Leadership focus from Capella University. You can follow Joab on Twitter @JoabStieglitz, on Facebook, and on his blog: joabstieglitz.com.