Halcyon

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Gender	Male
Industry	Education
Occupation	Writer, Lecturer, Cultural Critic and Apologist
Location	Memphis, TN, United States
Introduction	Greetings, fellow human. I'm a Christian cultural apologist with a BA in English (Crichton College), a MA in English and MFA in Creative Writing (University of Memphis), and am currently a PhD candidate at the U of Memphis. I am a Dark Fantasy Realist (floating somewhere between Chesterton and Cormac McCarthy), ardent Logocentrist, hardcore Trinitarian, Sacramental Protestant, aspiring author, frustrated rockstar, and lover of pie.
Interests	Defending the truth, beauty, and goodness of story, slaying the many-headed dragon that is poststructuralism.
Favorite Movies	In no particular order: (1) The Dark Knight (and anything else by Christopher Nolan) (2) Gladiator (3) Howl's Moving Castle (4) In Bruges (5) No Country for Old Men (Honorable Mention) The Fellowship of the Ring
Favorite Music	In no particular order, again: (1) My Epic (2) Future of Forestry (3) Switchfoot (4) Falling Up (5) Flyleaf (Honorable Mentions) RED and Anberlin
Favorite Books	Still in no particular order: (1) Till We Have Faces (C.S. Lewis) (2) Orthodoxy (G.K. Chesterton) (3) The Road (Cormac McCarthy) (4) Perelandra (C.S. Lewis) (5) The Man Who Was Thursday (G.K. Chesterton) (Very Honorable Mention) Dante, Spenser, Shakespeare, T.S. Eliot, Dorothy Sayer, J.R.R. Tolkien