Andy Olsen grew up equal parts in southern Wisconsin and central Kentucky. He has worked as a journalist, writer, and photographer for 20 years, covering assignments on three continents. He is a former editorial director at Christianity Today, the nation’s leading evangelical magazine. While there he covered migration and international affairs, writing and shepherding some of the publication’s most beloved longform stories.

His work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, and The Baltimore Sun, among other outlets, and has won numerous awards from the Religion News Association and the Evangelical Press Association. He has degrees from Asbury University and Tufts University. He lives with his wife and their three children in Lexington, Kentucky.