Timothy P. Schilling was born in Indiana and raised in Washington State. He studied English at Princeton University (BA 1987) and theology at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium (BA 1990, MA 1994), before earning a doctorate in practical theology at the Catholic Theological University of Utrecht, the Netherlands in 2003. Since then he has served on the staff of the Center for Parish Spirituality, a national pastoral resource center for parishes based in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Over the years his writings have appeared in Commonweal, America, Image, First Things, Communio, The Tablet, Katholiek Nieuwsblad, The American Fly Fisher, The Pike Place Market News, and other journals. He is the author of The Writings of Norman Maclean: Seeking Truth amid Tragedy (University of Nevada Press, 2024) and of Lonesome Road: A Memoir of Faith (Wipf and Stock, 2024).