John R. Spencer

JOHN R. SPENCER holds a degree in English Literature from the University of Northern Colorado, where he was editor-in-chief of the campus literary magazine NOVA, and a Master of Divinity degree from Nashotah House Seminary near Milwaukee. He is a retired priest of The Anglican Church in North America.

His diverse career has included parish ministry, diocesan leadership, and 20 years in secular professions as a police detective, coroner’s investigator, emergency medical technician, social worker, and community corrections supervisor.

He is the author of three non-fiction works, New Heavens, New Earth (2002), The Other John (2024), and Doubting God’s Goodness, Hard Questions, Real Answer (2024), as well as the fictional Solarium-3 Trilogy (Solarium-3, Haeven, and ReGeneration), Grand Slam (2017), and ICEQUAKE! (1997).

He lives with his wife Candice in Wisconsin.