Ryan Whitaker Smith is an author and filmmaker from Nashville, Tennessee. His film projects include the romantic drama Surprised by Oxford, based on the award-winning memoir by Carolyn Weber, the LIONSGATE documentary The Jesus Music, and a forthcoming adaptation of G.K. Chesterton’s comic adventure The Ball and the Cross. He is author of Winter Fire: Christmas with G.K. Chesterton and co-author, with Dan Witt, of Sheltering Mercy and Endless Grace, two collections of prayers inspired by the Psalms.