Author of debut novel A Grandmother Named Love (Inanna 2019), A. S. Compton has poetry forthcoming with Demeter Press and Vallum. She lives in the Haldimand Tract, Waterloo, Ontario, attends The Gathering church, and spends much of her time on her family’s inter-generational farm with her two children.
Adelle M. Banks, production editor and a national reporter, joined RNS in 1995. An award-winning journalist, she previously was the religion reporter at the Orlando Sentinel and a reporter at The Providence Journal and newspapers in the upstate New York communities of Syracuse and Binghamton.
AJ spent his youth and early career around Goshen, Ind. He has cycled between social services and environmental education, striving to find new ways to prove and communicate their connection. After an early career focused in northern Indiana, AJ finds himself in Los Angeles. Living in the glittering and grimy metropolis poses consistent challenges to the identity and practices of a plain person. AJ is enjoying the questions he faces as a metropolitan Mennonite man.
