Hannah Stevens is a pastor, spiritual director, and retreat leader who has spent years walking alongside people in the same surrender this book describes. She co-pastors GateCity Buckhead, a church plant in Atlanta, with her husband, Hazen, and holds a master’s degree in Spiritual Formation and Direction.

A South Carolina native, Hannah grew up a wide-eyed lover of the outdoors and read Phantastes at fifteen, never quite recovering from either. Decades later, that same wonder led her family to a wildlife conservancy in Kenya and, in time, to this book.

She and Hazen have four children: Amarin, Chesed, Pearl, and Elisha.