Karen Swallow Prior is Research Professor of English and Christianity and Culture at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. Her writing on literature, culture, ethics, and ideas appears at Christianity Today, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, First Things, The Dispatch, Plough and other places. She is the author of Booked: Literature in the Soul of Me (T. S. Poetry Press, 2012), Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More – Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist (Thomas Nelson, 2014), and On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Literature (Brazos, 2018). Karen and her husband live in rural Virginia with sundry dogs, horses, and chickens. Twitter: @KSPrior
