Joseph Isenberg received bachelor’s degrees in History and Political Science as well as a master’s degree in History from Iowa State University. His research emphasized medieval and ancient history in Iowa State’s Agricultural History and Rural Studies program. He earned a law degree from the University of Iowa College of Law. He practiced law for a number of years. He is currently Americas Correspondent for Antiqvvs magazine, where he writes regularly about ancient cultures as well as historical fiction and games.
He resides in central Iowa where he regularly participates in miniature wargames and role-playing games with the alumni of the Iowa State University Guild of Wargamers and Roleplayers. He has had a couple of role playing modules published in Chaosium’s “Call of Cthulhu” contest volumes. In 2021, he published his first novel, “Hot Halcon Nights: A Tale of the Pan-Galactic Empire.”