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 many 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 (titled the Grady Nutt Humor Award) from the Gospel Music Association in 2005. He also won the top humor prize given by the Evangelical Press Association in 2013 in addition to other EPA awards for reporting.

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