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Meet Our Contributors
Mike Aquilina
Mike Aquilina is the award-winning author of more than seventy books on Catholic history, doctrine, and devotion.
Randy Boyagoda
Randy Boyagoda is a novelist and professor of English at the University of Toronto.
William T. Cavanaugh
William T. Cavanaugh is the author of nine books. He is Professor of Catholic Studies and Director of the Center for World Catholicism and Intercultural Theology at DePaul University.
Kimberly Rae Connor
Kimberly Rae Connor is faculty emeritus at the University of San Francisco School of Management. She writes on religion and literature and Ignatian spirituality and is a spiritual director in the Ignatian tradition.
John F. Deane
John F. Deane is a renowned Irish poet and fiction-writer who founded Poetry Ireland and the Poetry Ireland Review in 1979. Carcanet Press published Selected and New Poems in 2023.
Stephen Doran
Stephen Doran is a neurosurgeon and deacon, and the author of To Die Well--A Catholic Neurosurgeon’s Guide to the End of Life.
Paul Elie
Paul Elie is a senior fellow at Georgetown University's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, and the author of two books; his third book will be published in 2025.
David Kang
David Kang is a Film and Brand Producer, a Midwesterner, and a son of Korean Catholics.
Mary Grace Mangano
Mary Grace Mangano is a poet, writer, and professor. She teaches at Seton Hall University and lives in New Jersey.
Philip Metres
Philip Metres is an Arab American writer and author of twelve books, including Fugitive/Refuge (2024). He teaches at John Carroll University.
Michael P. Murphy
Michael P. Murphy is Director of the Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage at Loyola University Chicago.
Timothy P. O'Malley
Timothy P. O’Malley is Associate Director for Research at the McGrath Institute for Church Life and Academic Director of the Notre Dame Center for Liturgy.
Shann Ray
Shann Ray is a Czech American artist and American Book Award winner who teaches poetry at Stanford and leadership and forgiveness studies at Gonzaga University.
Sally Read
Sally Read is an award-winning poet, author and editor of “100 Great Catholic Poems”. She lives near Rome, Italy.
Chika Unigwe
Chika Unigwe is a Nigerian writer who now lives in the United States. She is the author of four novels, as well as numerous short stories and essays.
Joseph Vukov
Joseph Vukov is a professor and author at Loyola University Chicago, where he is also Associate Director of the Hank Center.
Xueying Wang
Xueying Wang is a theologian at the University of Notre Dame, where her work focuses on Catholicism in China.
James Matthew Wilson
James Matthew Wilson is the author of fourteen books and the founding director of the MFA program in Creative Writing at the University of Saint Thomas.