Jack Hightower

I was born in 1984 to a preacher's daughter. Though I live in Memphis, I grew up in Millington, a town just north of the River City. That was were my grandpa's church was (a small country thing made up of sincere Baptists) and where my father's parent's lived. My childhood years revolved around my family and church (which to me was just an extended family).
When I was eleven or twelve, some ten years after my mom's dad had died, a new preacher came to town who took over the church. He was a narcissistic psycho who destroyed my church and drove my family away, and my extended family scattered to the four-winds. This fragmentation has never been remedied, and my life changed forever. Thus was my first encounter with evil.
My mom's mother taught my brother and I biblical things. While most children got taught stories like Jonah and the Whale, my brother and I were learning about imputed righteousness and limited atonement, and we would memorize passages, chapters, and even entire books or the Bible.
I didn't appreciate much of what my grandmother taught me until (1) I got saved and (2) I got an education. At Crichton, I received a Christian Liberal Arts education, and was schooled in great Western literature and Christian thought; but even then I didn't fully appreciate my legacy until after I graduated.
Currently I am at the U of M getting my M.A. in Literature (and possibly a PhD if I'm crazy enough to try). Though a secular education is a vacuous wasteland most of the time, it has taught me much about the vacuous wasteland that is the modern/post-modern world. I hope to use such knowledge in my writings.
Writing is going to be my life; it is my calling. I have no doubts about it. I want to write fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and graphic novels. I do none of this to amass a great fortune, but to hopefully infect the world with, and awaken them to, the beauty of holiness found in God alone.