Travis Scholl is the managing editor for theological publications at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis. He writes regularly for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on religion and culture and has published poems in Peregrine, Palimpsest, and Prospect. He holds an MDiv from Yale University Divinity School and is ordained in the LCMS. He is also the author of Living Lent: Daily Prayers for the Season. Scholl is currently a PhD candidate in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Missouri, Columbia; Scott Cairns is his advisor.
Walter Wangerin, Jr. is the award-winning author of thirty-five books, including the best-selling The Book of God, the National Book Award-winning The Book of the Dun Cow, and, most recently, Letters from the Land of Cancer. Wangerin holds the Jochum Chair at Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Indiana, where he teaches literature and creative writing, and is writer-in-residence.
