John Ellis grew up in Liberia, Belgium, and the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Area. From his adolescence, he established an affinity for the written word, serving as a writer and editor for his school and university literary magazines and newspapers. Ultimately, Ellis’ desire to ascribe meaning to the world through prose paralleled a greater, more pivotal awakening—discovering the Christian Gospel as the only empirically adequate, logically consistent, and experientially relevant explanation for reality, and Jesus Christ as the only hope for the world.

While in college, Ellis began working in the social services, with foster children in West Virginia and, thereafter, disability communities in Virginia and Maryland. At the age of twenty-five, he moved to San Francisco, California, to serve as a member of a Christian church plant; he later taught English Literature in several Bay Area Christian schools.

A “multipotentialite” by nature, Ellis is also an avid musician, songwriter, Francophile, United States Soldier and Paratrooper, podcaster, former competitive powerlifter, and business owner. He lives with his wife and daughter in the Washington D.C. Metro Area.

Ellis is a supporter of Compassion International, a child sponsorship program, and Rapha House International, a child sex-trafficking and sexual exploitation prevention and rehabilitation program. He encourages his site visitors to go to these websites and consider supporting children in need.