Formerly a Chicago-area newspaper reporter and Senior Editor of re:generation quarterly, which won the Utne Reader’s national top alternative magazine during Maxwell’s tenure. Maxwell also served as assistant news editor for Christianity Today and national editor of World Magazine. Additionally, Maxwell is the author of political biographies and local histories, as well as hundreds of magazine and newspaper articles. In 2003 he founded LifeStory Publishing, which is devoted to writing, editing, and publishing local and regional histories. Maxwell received a 2005 IPPY book award from the Independent Publisher Book Awards for one local history book.His present project—commissioned by the St. Dominic Health Services Foundation—is titled A Sister’s Love: The Story of the Dominican Sisters of St. Dominic Health Services, and is near completion.