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John Zmirakreceived his BA from Yale University in 1986, then his MFA in screenwriting and fiction and his PhD in English in 1996 from Louisiana State University. He has taught composition at LSU and screenwriting at Tulane University, and has written screenplays for and with director Ronald Maxwell (Gods & GeneralsandGettysburg). His essays, poems, and other works have appeared inFirst Things, theWeekly Standard, theAtlanta Journal-Constitution,USA Today, theAmerican Conservative, theSouth Carolina Review,The Atlantic,Modern Age, theIntercollegiate Review, theNew Republic,Commonweal, and theNational Catholic Register, among other venues. He has contributed toAmerican Conservatism: An EncyclopediaandThe Encyclopedia of Catholic Social Thought. From 2000 to 2004 he served as senior editor ofFaith & Family Magazineand a reporter at theNational Catholic Register.He works now as an editor for several publishing companies, including ISI. He lives in his native New York City.