Joe Carlson (MA Humanities) lives in the DFW metroplex with his wife and son. He did his undergrad at New St Andrews College, and received his masters degree at the University of Dallas, where he is currently finishing up his doctorate. His thesis explored and unpacked a specifically doxological pedagogy, based on Dante's educational projects. He has managed a chain of coffee shops, published (micro) epic poetry, co-pastored a church, helped create and staff a university campus ministry, written for the Salvo Magazine blog, and taught many different kinds of classes over the years. It was a passion for the medieval cosmology enjoyed by CS Lewis that eventually brought him back to an ever deepening love for the Divine Comedy.