Lucian Ivan Crowe is the author of Evin's Broken Believer, his debut novel. His work returns, with quiet insistence, to the questions that remain when every prop and illusion has been torn away: what becomes of a man then, and whether the faith he claimed can still hold him. He writes literary fiction that seeks to hold both severity and grace. Among the writers who first taught him the power of story were Dean Koontz, Robert Jordan, and Mickey Zucker Reichert; those who later showed him how fully literary fiction can carry such weight were Marilynne Robinson and Cormac McCarthy. He lives and writes in Cookeville, Tennessee, and is at work on his next novel.