D. C. Weiser earned his BA in liberal arts at Westminster College, and his MA in philosophy at the University of Kansas. His works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry include Crash Dummies, Austerity at a Graveyard, and The Song of Strawberry. A recipient of the Samuel Robinson Prize in Religion and Rockefeller Fellowship nominee, he is currently writing a book about legendary historian Perry Miller. His latest publication is New Institutes: A Primer of Practical Theology for Twenty-First-Century America (Wipf and Stock/Resource Publications, 2019).