Brad Thomas Batten is a writer and artist with a background in religious studies and literature. His first novel, JourneyMind, draws from a lifetime of travel and reflection, and was published in 2001. His second novel, Remembrance Day, was published in 2014. It tells the story of a young man growing up under the shadow of wars fought and carried home by his father and grandfather and his struggles against a history long past that punish generations of a family. Batten lives in Kingston, Ontario. Burntroot is his first collection of poetry.
