Meet the Authors

Dale Ahlquist

Dale Ahlquist is the president of the Society of Gilbert Keith Chesterton...

Carol Gordon Ekster

When not working on her books, Carol Gordon Ekster spends time doing yoga, reading, and bike riding. She is the author of Where Am I Sleeping Tonight?...

Stephanie Engelman

Stephanie Engelman spent the first decades of her life as a very lukewarm Christian, but quickly...

Jackie and Bobby Angel

Jackie and Bobby Angel live in Orange County, CA, with their children. Jackie is a traveling speaker...

Monica Ashour

Monica Ashour, national speaker, former teacher, and executive director of the Theology of the Body Evangelization Team (TOBET)...

Fr. Harrison Ayre

Fr. Harrison Ayre was born and raised near Vancouver, British Columbia. During his time at university studying philosophy, he had a profound conversion...

Sr. Patricia Marie Barnette, RGS

Sister Patricia Marie Barnette, RGS, is a Sister of the Good Shepherd and ministers as a licensed professional counselor. She has worked in the post-abortion healing ministry...

Cornelia Mary Bilinsky

Cornelia Mary Bilinsky was born and raised in Manitoba, Canada. She received her bachelor of arts degree in English and theology from St. Paul’s College at the University of Manitoba. She taught English...

Stephanie Calis

Invited: The Ultimate Catholic Wedding Planner is Stephanie Calis's first book. A certified Natural Family Planning instructor and former full-time speaker to Catholic youth, Stephanie...

Fr. Greg Cleveland, OMV

Fr. Greg Cleveland, OMV, is a native of Chicago and graduated from the University of Illinois with a degree in business administration. After working as a marketing manager for a Midwestern railroad company, he followed God’s call to priesthood...

Sr. Marie Paul Curley, FSP

As a Daughter of St. Paul, Sr. Marie Paul Curley finds inspiration and joy in daily Eucharistic adoration and in the Pauline mission of communicating Christ through the media...

Sr. Maria Grace Dateno

Sr. Maria Grace Dateno is a Daughter of St. Paul, and is currently an acquisitions editor at Pauline Books & Media, working with adult titles in the areas of faith formation, theology of the body, spirituality, personal growth, and lives of saints...

Terri DeGezelle

Author and photographer, Terri DeGezelle has published more than 60 children’s nonfiction titles as well as 100 magazine articles and several photos in national publications.

Terri is a presenter at young writers’ and young artists’ conferences around the Upper Midwest...

Cindi Duft

Cindi Duft is a cradle Catholic and a professional artist. She has been commissioned for more than fifty murals or paintings in churches and schools across her home state of Idaho...

Fr. Damian Ference

Rev. Damian J. Ference is a priest of the Diocese of Cleveland and is a sought-after preacher of the New Evangelization. He has served as Director of Human Formation and Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Borromeo Seminary...

Kris Frank

Kris Frank graduated from Franciscan University with a degree in catechetics and theology with a concentration in youth ministry. With over ten years of parish youth ministry experience...

Giuseppe Forlai

Father Giuseppe Forlai is a spiritual director at the Pontifical Roman Major Seminary and has published many books in the area of spirituality. He is a member of the Institute of Jesus the Priest...

Fabiola Garza

Fabiola Garza is a Character Artist at Disney Design Group in Orlando, FL. Prior to these ventures she attended Rhode Island School of Design and went on to work with Hasbro, Hitpoint Studios and Callaway Digital Arts...

Sr. Mary Kathleen Glavich

Sr. Kathleen Glavich, a Sister of Notre Dame, taught for thirteen years before becoming general editor for the Christ Our Life religion series (Loyola Press), a position she held for fifteen years...

John and Claire Grabowski

John and Claire Grabowski have been married for thirty years, have been blessed with five children and are expecting their second grandchild. For over twenty years, the Grabowskis have been involved in marriage preparation and have given marriage talks and retreats...

David Hajduk

David Hajduk has more than twenty years of experience in religious education and youth, family life, and pro-life ministries. Since 1998, he has been a member of the Religious Studies Department at Delbarton School...

Julia Harrell

Julia Harrell is a lifelong lover of books and of storytelling. She is a former elementary school teacher turned wife and stay-at-home mother. She holds a masters degree in education from the University of Maryland...

Marilee Haynes

Marilee Haynes was born and raised in Michigan and attended twelve years of Catholic school. After graduating college, she had a successful career in marketing and education. She married her husband in 2005 and shortly after, relocated to North Carolina. A lifelong lover of books...

Sr. Kathryn J. Hermes

A member of the Daughters of St. Paul, Kathryn James Hermes has an M.T.S. from Weston Jesuit School of Theology and an advanced certificate in Scripture. Besides her work for Pauline Books & Media as director of digital publishing, she gives numerous presentations throughout the US and Canada...

Sr. Mary Lea Hill

Sister Mary Lea Hill, a member of the Daughters of St. Paul since 1964, has enjoyed communicating the faith through a variety of apostolic assignments. Her skills as a story teller were honed as director of audiovisual productions when Pauline Books & Media first produced animated features...

Marlys Honeyman

Marlys lives happily with her husband in a log cabin in western Wisconsin, less than ten miles from Minnesota. This former newspaper journalist always yearns to learn more about God, most recently furthering her education via the Archbishop Flynn Catechetical Institute...

Katy Huth Jones

Katy Huth Jones grew up in a family where creative juices overflowed and made puddles to splash in. She has published five children's books and more than 100 short stories, poems, and articles in magazines and anthologies. When not writing, Katy plays piccolo and flute...

Matthew Kilmurry

Matthew Kilmurry was previously the Director of Marketing at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and is a published Catholic author. His first book You are The Catholic Brand by Liquori Publications, has inspired Catholics across the country to re-imagine their faith using modern day themes...

Genevieve Kineke

Genevieve Kineke, born in 1960, converted to the faith as a young adult. She was immediately drawn to the question of how women image God, and founded a quarterly journal in 1992 dedicated to that topic. Canticle Magazine (née hearth) fostered an ongoing discussion...

Ellen Labrecque

Ellen Labrecque is a children’s book writer who lives in Bucks County, Pennsylvania with her husband and two kids. She has written over 100 books for children on everything from sports to outer space...

Jean Lafrance

Jean Lafrance (1931–1991) was ordained for the diocese of Lille, France, in 1963. His active ministry included service as a parish priest, college professor, and chaplain to a community of nuns in Paris...

Fr. Roger J. Landry

Father Roger J. Landry is a priest of the Diocese of Fall River, Massachusetts, who works for the Holy See’s Permanent Observer Mission to the United Nations. He writes for many Catholic publications and is a popular retreat preacher...

Kent and Caitlin Lasnoski

Kent and Caitlin Lasnoski met in college, where they came alive in the faith and rediscovered the beauty of the Catholic Church through her teaching on marriage and sexuality. They have participated in and designed multiple Pre-Cana programs...

Nicole Lataif

Award-winning author and speaker Nicole Lataif is the founder and editor of KidsFaithGarden.com. Her first book, Forever You: A Book About Your Soul and Body, won a 2013 Christopher Award. Forever You, published by Pauline Books & Media...

Marcel LeJeune

Marcel LeJeune is Assistant Director at St. Mary's Catholic Center, at Texas A&M University, the largest campus ministry in the country. He is a sought-after speaker and author of Set Free to Love: Lives Changed by the Theology of the Body (Servant Books)...

Pamela Love

After growing up in New Jersey, Pamela Love attended Bucknell University. She was a teacher and a marketer before turning to writing. She’s the author of numerous picture books and has written many stories and poems in children’s magazines...

Ryan Marr

Ryan (“Bud”) Marr is the Director of the National Institute for Newman Studies and Associate Editor of the Newman Studies Journal. He has a strong personal interest in Newman—a result of the instrumental role that Newman played in his conversion to Catholicism...

Sr. Emily Beata Marsh

Emily Beata Marsh, FSP grew up in Bemus Point, New York, and is the oldest of twelve children. She enjoyed reading, soccer, playing the piano, and working in her father’s grocery store. She met the Daughters of St. Paul when she was sixteen years old, and felt God calling her to love him with her whole life and to help other people know God’s love...

Geraldine Ann Marshall

Geraldine Ann Marshall writes books for both children and adults. She has a bachelor’s degree in zoology from the University of Kentucky. She is the mother of two grown daughters. Geraldine lives in a house in the woods near Paducah, Kentucky...

Genny Monchamp

Genevieve Monchamp lives, writes, and plays in sunny Northern California with her husband, Clint, her three daughters: Kylie, Madison, and Avery, and her tortoise, Lettuce Lips.

Sr. Marlyn Monge

Sister Marlyn Evangelina Monge has been a Daughter of Saint Paul since 2005 and currently serves as an editor for books for children and teens at Pauline Books & Media. Before entering the convent she taught bilingual kindergarten for six years, taught in her parish’s religious education program, and volunteered with the youth ministry program...

Roberto Morozzo della Rocca

Roberto Morozzo della Rocca (b. 1955) teaches modern history at Roma Tre University. He specializes in the relation between religions and nations and also in the relation between modernity and the sacred, a subject on which he has published a dozen volumes, some of which have been translated into various languages...

Sr. Mary Martha Moss

Sr. Mary Martha Moss, FSP spent her childhood years in Louisiana riding horses and reading books, her two great passions. Confirmation classes opened up for her the reality of a relationship with Jesus as well as the joy and strength that comes from prayer. Since joining the Daughters of St. Paul in 1977...

Madeline Nugent

Madeline Pecora Nugent, CFP, is Minister General of the Confraternity of Penitents, a Roman Catholic private association with commendation of the Bishop of Fort Wayne-South Bend...

Ellen Lucey Prozeller

Ellen Lucey Prozeller has been a teacher on all levels, from elementary school through college. She has also taught religious education on a volunteer basis for many years. She holds an MA in English literature...

Marko Ivan Rupnik, SJ

Marko Ivan Rupnik, SJ, is the director of the Centro Aletti, a center for scholars and artists of Eastern Europe who meet and study with their western counterparts. A gifted artist and author, Rupnik has created mosaics for churches around the world...

Ezekiel Saucedo

Ezekiel Saucedo was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas. Inspired by his older sister’s incredible artwork, he started drawing at a very young age. Crayon drawings on the wall and comic strips on notebook paper eventually turned into illustrations featured in magazines and graphic design work for various organizations...

Richard Spinello

Dr. Richard Spinello is an associate research professor at Boston College where he teaches ethics courses and conducts an annual seminar on the thought of Saint John Paul II. He is also a member of the adjunct faculty at St. John’s Seminary in Boston...

Corynne Staresinic

Corynne Staresinic is the founder and director of The Catholic Woman, a nonprofit multimedia platform dedicated to fostering a sense of belonging among Catholic women. Corynne is passionate about exploring the meaning of womanhood...

Karen and Tommy Tighe

Karen and Tommy Tighe married in 2007 after meeting at UC Santa Barbara and now live in the San Francisco Bay Area. They are the proud Catholic parents of five perfect boys and are working hard to make the faith fun, accessible, and important in their lives.  

Dianne Traflet

Dianne Marie Traflet, J.D., S.T.D., is Associate Dean and Assistant Professor of Pastoral Theology at Immaculate Conception Seminary School of Theology (ICSST) at Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ. The founder and co-director of the Seminary’s Institute for Christian Spirituality...

Sr. Marianne Lorraine Trouvè

Since 1976, Marianne Lorraine Trouvé, FSP, has been a member of the Daughters of St. Paul, an international congregation of women religious. She has an M.A. in theology from the University of Dayton. Since 1994 she has served on the editorial staff of Pauline Books & Media publishing house in Boston, Massachusetts.

Leslea Wahl

Leslea Wahl lives in beautiful Colorado with her husband and three children. Their own life of adventure includes traveling, skiing and scuba diving. Leslea strives to write fiction that will inspire readers to use their own talents and gifts to glorify God.

Alexis Walkenstein

Alexis Walkenstein is an Emmy award-winning journalist turned public relations professional working to evangelize the culture with positive media. With over 20 years of media experience in major markets such as Washington D.C., New York, and Atlanta, Alexis’ career began in Boston. She went on to serve the Diocese of Palm Beach...

Jaclyn and David Michael Warren

Jaclyn Warren (illustrator) grew up in Louisiana where she fostered a deep love for art, Cajun culture, and Catholicism. She studied drawing and painting at the Savannah College of Art and Design and earned her master’s degree in Art Therapy at Florida State University. 

David Michael Warren (author) grew up searching for great stories in comic books, movies, church sermons, and anywhere else he could find them. When he studied film at the Savannah College of Art and Design, he met Jaclyn, heard the story of Catholicism, and converted to the faith. 

Sr Mary Leonora Wilson, FSP

Sr. Mary Leonora Wilson, FSP, has been enthusiastic in promoting the Pauline mission and spirituality since her religious profession in 1968. Like St. Paul, she is especially in love with the Scriptures and Jesus Crucified—two loves that she has been sharing in varied ways for more than fifty years.

Wendy Wright

Wendy M. Wright, PhD, is professor of theology at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska and holds the John C. Kenefick Faculty Chair in the humanities. She is well known for her work in the areas of Catholic spirituality, especially Salesian spirituality...