Warner Smith is a New England-based fiction writer, theologian, and chaplain whose work lives at the intersection of theology and story. Writing through a Gothic lens, his fiction explores the unseen consequences of ordinary desire — quiet dread, private bargains, and the metaphysical weight of small human choices.

Before theological study, Smith served ten years as a Correction Officer with the Massachusetts Department of Correction, a formation that shaped his unflinching attention to consequence, power, and the hidden costs of survival. He now serves as a chaplain and biblical counselor, walking alongside people navigating addiction, grief, and despair.

Smith holds an M.Div. from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and is completing a Th.M. at Hellenic College Holy Cross. An Orthodox Christian, he publishes The Moral Imagination, a literary journal devoted to serious craft and Christian moral vision.