Robert W. Graves is the author of The Gospel according to Angels (Chosen Books/1998) and Praying in the Spirit (Chosen Books/1987/revised 2016). His writings have appeared in Moody Monthly, Christian Parenting Today, Ministries Today, Pentecostal Evangel, Church of God Evangel, and numerous other publications. He has a master's degree in English from Georgia State University and has taught at Georgia State University, Kennesaw State University, and Southwestern Assemblies of God College. In 2001, he began writing fiction. His short stories "The Professor's Midnight Dream" and "Worn Carpet" were the first-place winners of the 2006 and 2010 Christian Authors Guild fiction contest. His short story "The Altar" was published by Gospel Publishing House and won first place in the 2006-2007 Fiction Writing contest of the Southern Christian Writers Conference. His latest publications are non-fiction: Strangers to Fire: When Tradition Trumps Scripture (2014), a 600-page anthology on the gifts of the Holy Spirit, which he edited and contributed two chapters to, The Kingdom Case against Cessationism: Embracing the Power of the Kingdom, and The Poet as Prophet, Wander, and Pilgrim in Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (2015).