Michael Harvey

Michael Harvey grew up in what is now the New River Gorge National Park in south eastern West Virginia. He graduated from Berea College with a BA in English in 1967. He was a pastor in a small rural church in eastern Kentucky and two urban churches in Chicago, before becoming the Executive Director of the Conference of Baptist Ministers in Massachusetts. He retired in June 2020, and was named the Executive Director Emeritus. The Conference of Baptist Ministers had a book of his translations, poetry and writings published in 2020; the title is Attempts at Light.