Chris Southgate is based on the edge of Dartmoor, Devon, England. He works at the University of Exeter as a Research Fellow in Theology and he is also Vice-Principal and Dean of Studies of the South-West Ministry Training Course.

POETRY Chris has been publishing his poetry since 1985. He is the author of six collections of poetry, including a verse biography of T.S. Eliot - A Love and its Sounding (Salzburg, 1997). His most recent collection is A Gash in the Darkness (Shoestring Press, 2012). To see how to book Chris for readings, workshops and commissions click here, and to read some of his poems, click here.

EDITING From 1989-96 Chris was the co-editor of the regional poetry magazine Otter. He has also edited the journal Reviews in Science and Religion, and the important textbook on the science-religion debate God, Humanity and the Cosmos

THEOLOGY - Chris has taught for the Dept of Theology at the University of Exeter since 1993. His main fields of study are the science-religion debate, ecotheology and environmental ethics. He welcomes enquiries from prospective research students.

His current teaching includes the modules 'The Human Animal', 'Evolution, God and Gaia', and 'God and the Physicists'. His book The Groaning of Creation: God, Evolution and the Problem of Evil (Westminster John Knox Press, 2008) has been described as 'quite excellent' (Church Times)