Patricia Raybon

A writer of faith by day and mystery by night, Patricia Raybon is an award-winning Colorado author, essayist, and novelist who writes top-rated books at the intersection of faith and race.

Her first fiction is a 1920s mystery series about a prim, clever Black female theologian—a fan of Sherlock Holmes—who solves murder and crime in Colorado’s dangerous Klan era. The series’ first book, All That Is Secret, is set to release Oct. 5, 2021, from Tyndale House.

A former Sunday Magazine editor at The Denver Post and former associate professor of journalism at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Patricia is a regular contributor to Our Daily Bread Ministries and the DaySpring (in)courage blog. Her award-winning books include My First White Friend, on racial forgiveness, and I Told the Mountain to Move, on her struggle to learn to pray. A mother of two and grandmother of five, she and husband Dan live in Colorado where they enjoy movies, popcorn, cozy mysteries, and soapy PBS dramas.