Bruce Kirkpatrick spent over 30 years in Silicon Valley as an executive and entrepreneur. Since his move to Southern California, he now divides his time between writing and serving on nonprofit boards of directors, including Christian Education Development Company and Extollo International. His nonprofit work includes helping to train Haitian men and women in employable skills, so that they can find jobs, feed their families and have hope for the future. His first novel, Hard Left, was published in 2007. His memoir, Lumberjack Jesus, debuted in 2016. The Resurrection of Johnny Roe, a clean fiction book, debuted in 2019. And The Carnival Chemist and Other Stories, a collection of short story clean fiction, published in Autumn 2020. A guide for parents hit in 2021, Raising God's Gen Z Teen. Recently, he published Anyone But Me, a novel set in Haiti. For more information, please visit bkirkpatrick.com.