John Desjarlais
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Location | Hendersonville, NC, United States |
| Introduction | John Desjarlais, a former producer for Wisconsin Public Radio, taught literature and creative writing at Kishwaukee College in Illinois for nearly 25 years. His novels include The Throne of Tara (Crossway 1990, a Christianity Today Readers Choice Award nominee), The Light of Tara (KDP, 2020), Relics (Thomas Nelson 1993, a Doubleday Book Club Selection), Bleeder, Viper (A Catholic Arts and Letters Award nominee), Specter (Chesterton Press, 2008, 2011, 2015), and A Drift of Swine (Torchflame Books 2022). Blood of the Martyrs and Other Stories (KDP 2012) contains short fiction that previously appeared in such periodicals as The Critic, The Karitos Review, The Upper Room, On Being, The Rockford Review, Apocalypse 9, Conclave, Lit Noir, and Dappled Things. He received Honorable Mention in the 1997 Writers Digest Competition and was a fiction finalist in the 2016 Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction Contest. A member of Mystery Writers of America, the North Carolina Writers Network, and The Catholic Writers Guild, he has been listed in Who’s Who in Entertainment, Contemporary Authors, and Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers. |
| Interests | Catholic Spirituality, mystery fiction, guitar |