Nick Ripatrazone is the author of Longing for an Absent God: Faith and Doubt in Great American Fiction (Fortress Press 2020) and Wild Belief: Faith in the Wilderness (Fortress Press 2021). He is the Culture Editor for Image Journal, a Contributing Editor at The Millions, and a columnist for Literary Hub. He has written for Rolling Stone, GQ, The Atlantic, Esquire, America, Commonweal, Christianity Today, The Sewanee Review, The Christian Century, Kenyon Review, The Paris Review, and elsewhere.