Raised and educated in five Southern states, Thomas Ronald Vaughan is a poet, author, and ordained minister. He has spent his career as a healthcare administrator and parish minister in the United Church of Christ and the Presbyterian Church (USA). His writings include three works of theology, and this, his seventh book of verse. Many of these are available through Wipf and Stock imprints. He and his wife, Jayne, live in the mountains of western North Carolina, near Asheville.