About the Author

Tim Vivian is a professor emeritus of Religious Studies at California State University, Bakersfield, and a retired priest in the Episcopal Church. He has an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from the Church Divinity School of the Pacific (Episcopal). A scholar of early Christian monasticism, he has published numerous books including The Sayings and Stories of the Desert Fathers and Mothers (volume 1) and, co-authored, The Life of Antony and The Life of Bishoi. He has previously published two books of poems, Other Voices, Other Rooms and Poems Written in a Time of Plague.