Joy Marie Clarkson is the Books and Culture Editor for Plough Quarterly and hosts the Plough podcast, Another Life, as well as her own podcast, Speaking with Joy. She holds a PhD in theology from the Institute for Theology and the Arts at the University of Saint Andrews and is currently research associate in theology and literature at King’s College London. She has written for Plough, Christianity Today, The Tablet, and other magazines, and published several books. Her most recent titles are Aggressively Happy, and You Are a Tree. Follow her on X @joynessthebrave  and on Substack at joyclarkson.substack.com.