Following years of teaching high school English, David Dark received his doctorate in 2011 and now teaches at the Tennessee Prison for Women and Belmont
University where he is Assistant Professor of Religion and the Arts in the College of Theology. His work has appeared in MTV News, Books & Culture, Pitchfork, and the Oxford American. He is the author of:

• The Possibility of America: How the Gospel Can Mend our God-Blessed, God-Forsaken Land (2019),
• Life’s Too Short to Pretend You’re Not Religious (2017),
• The Sacredness of Questioning Everything (2009),
• The Gospel according to America: A Meditation on a God-blessed, Christ-haunted Idea (2005),
• Everyday Apocalypse: The Sacred Revealed in Radiohead, The Simpsons, and Other Pop Culture Icons (2002).

Visit his website at https://www.daviddark.org