Amy Frykholm is an award-winning writer, scholar, and journalist. As a senior editor for The Christian Century magazine, she hosts the podcast In Search Of. After receiving her PhD from Duke University, she went on to write five books of nonfiction which cover the territory of American religion from apocalyptists to saints, including Rapture Culture: Left Behind in Evangelical America, Julian of Norwich: A Contemplative Biography, and most recently Wild Woman: A Footnote, The Desert, and My Quest for An Elusive Saint. 

Relationships between body, spirit, and land pervade Amy's writing and cross genre boundaries between nonfiction, poetry, and fiction. Her debut poetry chapbook The Hour of Light encounters stories of exile and desire in ancient sources and searches for resonances that cut against habitual interpretations. 

Amy’s debut literary novel, High Hawk, is forthcoming from University of Iowa Press in Fall 2024.