Peter Mommsen is editor of Plough Quarterly, a magazine of stories, ideas, and culture for people eager to put their faith into practice: www.plough.com/quarterly

After studying classics at Harvard from 1994 to 1997, Peter left college to work on an organic monastery farm on Isla de Ometepe, Nicaragua. Returning to his home town in upstate New York, he has worked as a writer, editor, and translator since 1999. Twelve years ago, he began work on a biography of his grandfather, published this year as Homage to a Broken Man: The Life of J. Heinrich Arnold (Plough Publishing, 2015).

Peter and his wife Wilma have three children. After living seven years in Germany, their home is now in Montgomery, New York.