April D. DeConick, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Religion at the Illinois Wesleyan University. Most recently, she is the authoress of Voices of the Mystics: Early Christian Dialogue in the Gospels of John and Thomas and Other Ancient Christian Literature (2001) and Recovering the Original Gospel of Thomas: A History of the Gospel and Its Growth (2005). She is currently completing a translation ans commentary called The Original Gospel of Thomas in Translation.