Our Authors

Harvest J. Prude

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Harvest Prude is a poet and journalist who explores home, longing, nature, and faith through free verse and mythopoetics. Her debut poetry collection, WITH LOVE FROM SPACE, is forthcoming from Victorious Hermit. For much of the past decade, she has reported on politics, Congress, the Supreme Court, and refugee and immigration policy for national news outlets. You can follow her work here.

Hardin Crowder

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Hardin Crowder is an essayist, poet, illustrator, and traditional woodcut artist who serves as pastor of Dover Baptist Church in Manakin-Sabot, Virginia. His Ecclesiastes-inspired poetry collection, THE BOOK OF VAPORS, will release this winter, the first in his planned Solomon Cycle of poetry about Solomon's life and wisdom for Victorious Hermit Books. He shares sermons, literary essays, and poetry on his Substack, This Blessed Plot.

A. A. Kostas

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A. A. Kostas is a Canadian-Australian writer who lives in Singapore with his wife and son. He is the poetry editor of Magazine Non Grata and a contributing editor at Traces Journal. He’s also the author of the poetry chapbook LUMINOX from TiltTiltTilt Press. His debut novel, THE PILGRIMS, arrives this spring from Victorious Hermit Books. Keep up with his work via his Substack, Waymarkers.

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C. J. W. Armstrong

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C. J. W. Armstrong is a Canadian author and playwright born in Montreal, Quebec, but he did most of his growing up in Ontario. He now lives in Dublin, Ireland with his wife and sons. His science fiction novel PNEUMANAUTS is a mind-bending journey through doubt, despair, and unlikely hope as a group of Canadian teens go on a road trip to confront an alien spacecraft looming in orbit. It was first published by Eclogue Press and is now housed under Victorious Hermit after Eclogue's acquisition. You can find more of his writing on Substack and his website.

Kate Bluett

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Kate Bluett is a poet and hymnist from Texas. Her first hymns were published by OCP in 2014. Since 2020, she has written extensively with the Porter’s Gate Worship Project and Paul Zach, as well as other independent Christian music artists. Her debut book is forthcoming from Victorious Hermit this summer. THE PASSION OF SAINT MARGARET is a brilliant, one-act verse play about Saint Margaret of Antioch's martyrdom, accompanied by a collection of poems inspired by saints and biblical figures, all in Kate's distinctive lyrical style. You can keep up with Kate's writing on Substack.