Poet and writer Thomas Ronald Vaughan was raised and educated in five Southern, “Christ-haunted” states (to use Flannery O’Connor’s perfect term). He holds degrees from several schools, including Duke University. He has spent his professional career as a healthcare administrator, and as a minister of religion in the Presbyterian Church, USA, and the United Church of Christ. Vaughan and his wife, Jayne, live in the mountains of western North Carolina, near the city of Asheville.
He recently published The Love of God and The Age to Come: No Eternal Hell (Wipf & Stock)