Shane Yancey is a youth pastor at a mid-sized Baptist church in Kentucky where he lives with his wife and two teenage sons. He grew up reading Tolkien, Lewis, and whatever book at the library had a picture of a dragon on it. His love of reading was formed by his mother who would read aloud to him. Her voice gave him stories like "Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry"; "Sounder"; "Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing" "Are You There God it's Me Margaret" and "I am the Cheese. He studied Creative Writing at Auburn University and was mostly focused on writing poetry and short stories. It was a desire to write something that he could share with his sons that motivated him to move into novels. Shane is a collector of board games and on most days that you ask him Kingsburg is his favorite to play.
