Crystal Downing

Crystal Downing, Author, is the Co-Director of the Marion E. Wade Center at Wheaton College. She is an award-winning author of several books including Writing Performances: The Stages of Dorothy L. Sayers (Palgrave 2004). She has published over ninety essays on topics ranging from deconstruction to the Amish and serves as keynote speaker at conferences across North America and Europe. She received her PhD in English from the University of California at Santa Barbara.