Joel Kilpatrick

Joel Kilpatrick is an author, journalist and humorist whose work has been featured in USA Today, Time magazine, the Washington Post, CBS Radio, the Dallas Morning News and other publications. He has authored and ghostwritten hundreds of books and has reported from disaster zones and civil wars in eighteen countries. Kilpatrick earned an MS degree in journalism from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York in 1995.

Satire brought Kilpatrick's work to national attention in 2003 with the launch of LarkNews, the world's leading Christian humor website for the next decade. He won the Dove award for humor (the Grady Nutt Humor Award) from the Gospel Music Association in 2005. He also won the top humor prize from the Evangelical Press Association and other EPA awards for reporting. He then served as a judge for the EPA and other Christian writing contests.

Kilpatrick has worked with many Christian leaders including Rick Warren, Bill Johnson, Tommy Barnett, Mike Bickle, Michael Hyatt, TBN, Joni & Friends and pastors of many churches. He ghostwrote Don Colbert's "The 7 Pillars of Health" which has sold nearly a million copies. Kilpatrick's recent work includes penning the introductions to all 66 books of the Bible for the Kingdom Life Study Bible (HarperCollins, 2024) as well as verse notes for eight books including Proverbs, Isaiah and Ecclesiastes. Recent ghostwritten books include Victor Marx's "The Dangerous Gentleman."

Kilpatrick and his wife live in California. They have five adult children.