Crystal Hurd is a researcher and poet from Virginia. She has degrees from the University of Tennessee, East Tennessee State University, and the University of Texas at El Paso. She is the author of Thirty Days with C. S. Lewis: A Women’s Devotional and The Leadership of C. S. Lewis: Ten Traits to Encourage Change and Growth, serves as the Reviews Editor for Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal, and, in 2020, won the Clyde Kilby Research Grant from The Marion E. Wade She currently teaches in the Romantic Theology and Faith and Writing programs at Northwind Theological Seminary.