Christian Leithart

Christian Leithart was born in Alabaster, Alabama, and was raised in the northern part of Idaho (wheat not potatoes), so not only does he know how to drive in the snow, he understands that if you go to a real BBQ expecting a hamburger, you're crazy. He graduated from New Saint Andrews College in 2012, where he received a BA in Liberal Arts, which included studying everything from logic trees to Latin swear words. As a junior, he began directing student theater productions and organized an improv group, though organized may be too strong a word. He also earned an MA in Theology from New Saint Andrews in 2014, for which he wrote a critical thesis on time in the work of TS Eliot and a creative thesis (a novella called "The Bright City").
  Christian has worked as a waiter, a surveyor, a copywriter, a cleaner of carpets, and a video producer, and once even got paid to play a video game. His greatest claim to fame is that M. Night Shyamalan once told him he had ruined everything. His research interests include anything that makes academic study relevant to the life and imagination of non-academic people. Right now - seriously, right this minute - he is trying to think of a way to do that for the sixteenth-century poet Edmund Spenser.
  Christian writes fiction and creative nonfiction whenever he has a spare moment. He also writes poetry that he is too embarrassed to read to anyone but his wife. He and his wife have an infant daughter, who, in true sacramental faith, does her level best to experience the world primarily by eating it.