JOHN M. KEITH began writing fiction as a student at Duke University where he was awarded the Anne Flexner Memorial Prize (presented by William Styron). His recent books are Complete Humanity in Jesus: A Theological Memoir (2009), True Divinity in Christ: A Testimony of Faith and Hope with Four Short Stories (2010), and Canebrake Beach: A Novella and Four Short Stories (2012). John is a retired Episcopal priest living in Fearrington Village, North Carolina with his wife, Rilla. John graduated magna cum laude from Duke University and cum laude from Harvard Divinity School. After John served churches in North Carolina, Nicaragua, and France, the majority of his ministerial career was in Alabama, including Marion, Opelika, and the Montgomery area where he lived for twenty-four years.