Judith Valente is a former staff writer for the
Washington Post and the
Wall Street Journal and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in journalism. She is a former correspondent for PBS's
Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly and senior correspondent for investigative reporting and long features at the NPR affiliate in central Illinois. She was also a special correspondent covering faith and values and arts and culture for Chicago Public Radio. Valente contributes articles to
US Catholic magazine and
National Catholic Reporter. She lives in Normal, Illinois. Learn more at
www.judithvalente.com.
Brother Paul Quenon, OCSO, entered the Trappist Abbey of Gethsemani in 1958 at the age of 17. Thomas Merton was his novice master and spiritual director. Quenon is the author of 9 collections of poetry. His memoir,
In Praise of the Useless Life, was praised by Sue Monk Kidd, Pico Iyer, and Kathleen Norris.
