A Fire to Light Our Tongues: Texas Writers on Spirituality brings together fiction, poetry, and essays by Texas writers. The title is taken, with permission, from Naomi Shihab Nye's introduction to Salting the Ocean: 100 Poems by Young Poets, where she states the role of poetry serves as "a fire to light our tongues." While the project started before COVID-19, given the pandemic, a book of creative, eclectic work exploring spirituality, faith, and disbelief could not be more timely. This anthology offers readers creative work by