Joel Kilpatrick is an award-winning journalist and author whose work has been featured in Time magazine, the Washington Post, USA Today, CBS Radio, the Dallas Morning News. He has authored and ghostwritten more than 40 books, including a New York Times bestseller. He has reported from disaster zones and civil wars in seventeen countries and received numerous prizes for writing and reporting.

Joel has worked with many leading ministries including Rick Warren, Michael Hyatt, TBN, Nancy Alcorn, Convoy of Hope, the Dream Center, and more.

He was the founder of LarkNews.com, a religious satire website that won the Dove award for humor from the Gospel Music Association in 2005.

Joel has been profiled in Time magazine, Christianity Today, and on NPR, and has been featured twice in USA Today. He earned a Master's degree in journalism from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York and now lives in California with his family.