Mike DeVries is a native of Colorado. Born in Denver in 1965, he grew up here in Northern Colorado on the Front Range and graduated from high school in Longmont in 1983. He received his undergraduate training with a major in Bible and a minor in Greek in 1987 and then his Masters of Arts in Bible in 1989. He has finished the coursework for the Doctorate of Sacred Ministries as well as the Doctorate of Religious Studies degrees from two different schools, but given his antipathy for writing, he'll never finish them.

Mike and his wife Noel have four beautiful children and three grandchildren.