John R. Spencer holds a degree in English Literature from the University of Northern Colorado, and a Master of Divinity from Nashotah House Seminary near Milwaukee. He is a retired priest of the Anglican Church in North America, and a life-long Christian. His diverse career has included parish ministry, diocesan leadership, plus twenty years in secular professions as a police office and detective, coroner's investigator, emergency medical technician, social worker, and community corrections supervisor. He is the author of three other nonfiction works, New Heavens, New Earth (2002), The Other John (2024), and Doubting God's Goodness, Hard Questions, Real Answers (2025), as well as the fictional Solarium-3 Trilogy (Solarium-3, Haeven, and ReGeneration). He lives with his wife Candice in Wisconsin.