Jan B. W. Pedersen is a philosopher, researcher, and author with an interest in wonder, imagination, and human flourishing. He also has a passionate interest in apocrypha, marginalia, Romanticism, and the American weird fiction author Howard Phillips Lovecraft. He received his Ph.D. from Durham University, UK and MA from Aarhus University, Denmark and holds the position of senior lecturer at University College Diakonissestiftelsen, Frederiksberg, Denmark. He has published on ethics, metaphysics, and literature.