Ken is an award-winning religion, travel, and culture newswriter.

He is President of the Religion News Association and Editor of ReligionLink, a nonpartisan, monthly newsletter with source guides and story ideas for journalists reporting on religion. He is also a journalist-fellow with the University of Southern California’s Center for Religion and Civic Culture’s Spiritual Exemplars Project.

His bylines include work with The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, Religion News Service, USA Today, The Guardian, Christianity Today, The Houston Chronicle, Salon, Newsweek, New Lines Magazine, The Conversation, Religion Unplugged, Interfaith America Magazine, AFAR Magazine, The Raw Story, The Times of India, Sojourners Magazine, The Daily Dot, Sightings from the University of Chicago, Deseret News National, Christian Century, US Catholic, RealClear Religion, Epicenter Magazine, The Living Church, The Gainesville Sun, The Lutheran (Australia), HUM Magazine, Indo-American News, The Olive Tree (New Zealand), The Lattice Journal & other publications.

He has published articles in, or his work has been translated into, Arabic, Cantonese, Czech, Dutch, Estonian, French, German, Indonesian, Kiswahili, Portuguese, Malay, Mandarin, Norwegian (Bokmål), Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish.

A compendium of his published work is available at www.kenchitwood.com.