Kent Annan is author of Following Jesus Through the Eye of the Needle (December 2009) and After Shock: Searching for Honest Faith When Your World Is Shaken (January 2011), both published by InterVarsity Press.

He is also co-director of Haiti Partners, a nonprofit focused on education in Haiti. He’s worked in Haiti since 2003—first living there and now traveling there regularly from Florida, where he lives with his wife and two children.

Kent has spent many years going back and forth between North America and working with people in different, difficult situations around the world. After graduating from university, Kent worked for two years in Western Europe helping refugees from the former Yugoslavia, Iran, Sierra Leone, and other countries. He then returned to study theology at Princeton Seminary, during which he spent three months studying in India. On graduation, he moved to Albania and then Kosovo to work for six months with refugees there. Later he moved back to Princeton to work (and for love!)—and a few years later he and his new wife moved to Haiti for two and a half years.

His writing has been published in literary journals including Utne Reader, Subtropics, Geez, Adbusters, The Sun, Natural Bridge, Pilgrimage Puerto Del Sol, Orion. One of his essays was cited as a “Notable Essay” in the Best American Essays series.

Kent has a Master of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary.