Mark S. Burrows is an award-winning poet and translator, much sought-after as a retreat leader and public speaker on topics ranging from spirituality and poetry to mysticism and the arts. A past president of the Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality, he taught theology and the arts in graduate schools in the US for twenty-five years before spending most of the last decade teaching at a university in Germany.

Among his recent publications: The Chance of Home: Poems (2018); three books, with Jon M. Sweeney, of meditative poems inspired by Meister Eckhart, most recently Meister Eckhart's Book of Darkness and Light (2023); and a new translation of poems by the Jewish-German poet Hilde Domin, The Wandering Radiance (2023). Mark lives and writes in Camden, ME. Find him at www.soul-in-sight.org.

Jon M. Sweeney is an award-winning author and independent scholar. Currently, Jon is religion editor at Monkfish Book Publishing, editor of Living City magazine, and book review editor at SpiritualityandPractice.com. He speaks at literary and religious conferences, in churches and synagogues, and at independent bookstores. He is a Catholic married to a rabbi, and their interfaith marriage has been profiled in national media. He has been interviewed by the Dallas Morning News and The Irish Catholic, on radio with NPR and the BBC, and on television for CBS Saturday Morning, as well as NBC's The Morning Blend and CBS Sunday Morning in Milwaukee.

Jon's books on Franciscan spirituality have sold a quarter million copies. He's also author of thirty other books on spirituality, mysticism, biography, and memoir, including Meister Eckhart's Book of the Heart, coauthored with Mark S. Burrows (Hampton Roads, 2017); Thomas Merton: An Introduction to His Life, Teachings, and Practices (St. Martin's Essentials, 2021); and Sit in the Sun: And Other Lessons in the Spiritual Wisdom of Cats (Broadleaf, 2023). The Pope Who Quit (Doubleday/Image, 2014) has sold 50,000+ copies and was optioned by HBO.