Author: Michael Demkovich
Alternate names: M. Thomas-Paul Demkovich
Born: 30 January 1954
Bio: **Michael Thomas-Paul Demkovich**, (1954- ) is a Dominican Friar who has written on Spirituality, Theology & Meister Eckhart in journals and books. He holds a Ph.D. and the Pontifical Doctorate, both from the Katholiek Universiteit Leuven. From 1991 to 1996 he taught at the Dominican Studium in St. Louis, MO before becoming the Founding Director of the Dominican Ecclesial Institute (Albuquerque, NM). In 2009 he was named the Gerald Vann Visiting Fellow at Blackfriars, Oxford. In his most recent work, The Death of Magister Aycardus, he captures the history of the period and the reader's imagination to create interest and suspense. He is the author of Introducing Meister Eckhart (Ligouri, 2006) and A Soul-Centered Life (Liturgical Press, 2010).