The Author

K. Gordon Neufeld is the author of "Heartbreak and Rage: Ten Years Under Sun Myung Moon, A Cult Survivor's Memoir" (2002), as well as "Cult Fiction: One Writer's Creative Journey Through an Extreme Religion" (2014), both previously released by Virtualbookworm.com. He is the author of many newspaper articles, short stories and opinion pieces about cults that have appeared in publications such as the Vancouver Sun, First Things magazine, and The Windsor Review. He is a graduate of The Humber College Correspondence School for Writers in Toronto, and holds a Master's degree in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia. Recently, he launched a "Fifteenth Anniversary Edition" of his memoir as a series of four books on Amazon Kindle. He is currently working on a follow-up story collection to "Prophet and Loss," which is tentatively titled "The Distance Between the Planets and Other Stories." Mr. Neufeld resides with his family in upstate New York.

"Prophet and Loss" received an honorary mention from the 2018 North Street Book Prize.