I'm a writer and speaker in the Chicago area. My two new books, Disquiet Time and Wholehearted Living, will be published in autumn 2014 by Hachette/Jericho Books and Loyola Press, respectively.

My first book, Love You More: The Divine Surprise of Adopting My Daughter, was published in August 2011 by Thomas Nelson publishers. Released in May 2012 from Worthy Publishing, MOMumental: Adventures in the Messy Art of Raising a Family was featured in Publishers Weekly and The Christian Science Monitor. 

I've written columns and many health and parenting features for the Chicago Tribune. For more than a decade, I wrote features, columns, restaurant reviews, and even - for a time - the police blotter (reporting on stolen garden gnomes, possession of drug paraphernalia, and other suburban shenanigans) for Sun-Times Media newspapers. My work has also been published on britannica.com, momitforward.com, eatdinner.org, and in magazines including Chicago Parent, Draft, MomSense, Conscious Choice, and Loyola Press' Seasons magazine. I am a regular contributor to her.meneutics, Sojourners magazine's God's Politics blog, and Fullfill. I also occasionally blog at the Convergent Books blog. 

I graduated from Wheaton College (IL) and received my Masters degree in English literature with concentrations in fiction writing and critical theory from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX. 

I am a member of INK: A Creative Collective.  

My literary agent is Christopher Ferebee.

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