Karen Swallow Prior
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Karen Swallow Prior

Karen Swallow Prior (PhD, SUNY Buffalo) is the award-winning author of On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books and The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis. She is a frequent speaker, a monthly columnist at Religion News Service, and has written for Christianity Today, The Atlantic, the Washington Post, the New York Times, and Vox. She is a research fellow with Comment, a founding member of the Pelican Project, a senior fellow at the Trinity Forum, and a senior fellow at the International Alliance for Christian Education.


Books by Karen Swallow Prior

  1. You Have a Calling
    Hardcover

    You Have a Calling

    Aug 2025
  2. The Evangelical Imagination
    Hardcover

    The Evangelical Imagination

    Aug 2023
  3. The Evangelical Imagination
    E-Book

    The Evangelical Imagination

    Aug 2023
  4. On Reading Well
    Paperback

    On Reading Well

    Feb 2022
  5. On Reading Well
    E-Book

    On Reading Well

    Sep 2018