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Alise Wright
Alise is a wife, a mother of four, an eater of soup, and a lover of Oxford commas. Her writing reflects her life and her relationships with all of the “wrong” people that God keeps bringing into her life. She is the editor of Not Alone: Stories of Living with Depression and Not Afraid: Stories of Finding Significance, both with Civitas Press. You can generally find her sitting behind a keyboard of some kind: playing or teaching the piano, writing at her laptop, or texting her friends a random movie quote.
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Allison Olfelt
Allison writes about life – the real and the messy – from her home in Minnesota. Her days are spent chasing two tow-headed boys and alongside her husband in perpetual projects of home renovation. In 2012, Allison was part of the World Vision Sri Lanka bloggers team.
For over four years, she has shared her passion for natural family living, running, knitting, coffee and more at O My Family.
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Amanda Williams
Amanda Williams is wife to David and stay-at-home mama to 2-year-old twin boys and a spunky 5-year-old girl. Tennessean by birth, Nashvillian by choice, Amanda uses her free time to stare at the wall, inhale coffee and chocolate, snap photos and play with words. Amanda laughs at herself – a lot – and she believes honest words can unearth beauty and truth from chaos and doubt. She writes about motherhood, faith and writing at life.edited.
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Diana Trautwein
Married to her college sweetheart for over 40 years, Diana is always wondering about things. She answers to Mom from their three adult kids and spouses and to Nana from their 8 grandkids, ranging in age from 2 to 21. For 17 years, after a mid-life call to ministry, she answered to Pastor Diana in two churches where she served as Associate Pastor. Since retiring at the end of 2010, she spends her time working as a spiritual director and writes on her blog, Just Wondering. For as long as she can remember, Jesus has been central to her story and the church an extension of her family. Not that either church or family is exactly perfect . . . but then, that’s what makes life interesting, right?
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Dulce Chale
Dulce is the happy wife of a wonderful husband and a homeschooling mom to four much-loved kidlets. She reads constantly, loves to travel, blogs at Dulce de leche and drinks copious amounts of iced coffee. Each new day is full of joy and fresh adventures as she is learning to walk in God’s amazing grace.
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Ed Cyzewski
Ed Cyzewski is a freelance writer in Columbus, OH where he lives with his wife, son, and furniture nibbling house rabbits. He is the co-author of Hazardous: Committing to the Cost of Following Jesus and author of Coffeehouse Theology, Divided We Unite, and A Path to Publishing. Ed writes regularly for a number of magazines and web sites. He blogs on freelance writing at: www.edcyz.com and on imperfectly following Jesus (sometimes with a touch of sarcasm) at www.inamirrordimly.com.
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Gretchen White
With eight children and another due in the Fall of 2012, a daring husband, and two knuckleheaded dogs, Gretchen never finds herself bored. She has been blogging at Lifenut for eight years, focusing on what it’s like to wake up every morning and wonder why there are so many dirty spoons, socks, and people calling her “Mom!” She doesn’t avoid messier, painful subjects like recurrent pregnancy loss, helping kids navigate life’s ups and downs, and her own head-smacking shortcomings. Gretchen also writes for The Denver Post’s Mile High Mamas blog with a focus on the humorous side of parenting. She enjoys when her cakes slide out of the pan easily, exploring her home state of Colorado with her family, photography, and reading.
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Guy Delcambre
Guy Delcambre is a writer, mountain bike and outdoors enthusiast and newfound explorer of living life as a single dad to three amazing little girls. Following the unexpected death of his wife in 2010, he and his children were met with an immeasurable, persistent grace, and in the midst of their loneliness, they experienced the loving and real presence of God. On his blog, Guy shares their adventure together as they learn life new, lean on God’s indelible grace and trust in a tomorrow rebuilding.
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Heather King
Heather King is a married mother of three living in Minnesota. Her personal blog, The Extraordinary Ordinary, is known for its weekly Just Write link-up and its honest candor on all things life and motherhood. When not waxing philosophical there, Heather also curates and edits for Story Bleed Magazine, contributes at She Posts and Owning Pink and is dipping her toes in the family travel blogging pool at Trekaroo. She spends Mondays and Fridays alone at home, to write, and then can be found wrangling and redirecting and smooching her Miles and Asher and Elsie all the other days of the week. Oh, and she has chickens. She adores her chickens.
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Jessica Bowman
Jessica is an aspiring writer, gentle-parenting, grace-extending, deep-breath-taking nearly 30 year old. She and her family of 6 have lived in 3 countries, 4 states, and both coasts in the past decade or so, recently selling everything they owned and moving to British Columbia to follow God’s latest leading. In her “free” time she loves (hula) hooping and watching mindless television on Netflix. Because she’s classy like that. You can find her blogging at Bohemian Bowmans.
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Jen Johnson
JJ is a professional talker, having spent the last 15 years in government and public affairs. When she hasn’t used up her word quota for the day, she can be found at her keyboard telling stories or writing about the periphery of her life as the Blah Blah Blahger. She loves God, her family and friends, her life in the OC…and she is single and convinced that Prince Charming might be lost trying to find her. Can’t anyone lend him a GPS???
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Jennifer Luitwieler
Jennifer Luitwieler writes about faith, story and running at her site. Her first book, Run With Me: An Accidental Runner and the Power of Poo, was published in September, 2011 (Civitas Press). She is a Pittsburgh transplant who, after nearly 18 years in Tulsa, OK, still clings to her Ohio Valley roots, though each of her three children are Okies, born and bred. She and her husband homeschool two of the three and run their fall weekends by the Pittsburgh Steelers schedule.
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Jessica Turner
Jessica Turner blogs on The Mom Creative about motherhood, memory keeping, faith, and frugal living. Every day is a juggling act as she balances working full-time, making memories with her family, photographing the every day and trying to be crafty. She also enjoys connecting with online friends via Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest. Jessica and her husband, Matthew, live in Nashville, Tennessee, with their two young children, Elias and Adeline.
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Katherine Willis Pershey
Katherine is a minister ordained in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), a movement that humbly professes “no creed but Christ.” Her husband, Ben, is a stay-at-home-father to their daughters, Juliette and Genevieve. Katherine loves preaching the gospel, racing in triathlons, baking bread, and listening to Over the Rhine. She is the author of Any Day a Beautiful Change: A Story of Faith and Family.
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Leigh Kramer
Leigh Kramer is on a quest; she’s living life on purpose. Her to-do list might look something like this: leave life in the Midwest for Nashville, Tennessee with only fried pickles for comfort, quit steady job as a social worker to chase that dream of writing at last, suck the marrow out of life’s in-between places and revel in the now at every turn. Leigh shares this journey through words of transparency, heart, and just a dash of pluck at LeighKramer.com and on Twitter at @hopefulleigh.
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Luke Harms
Luke is an ENFP who hates writing bio’s in the 3rd person. He’s an analyst to pay the bills (a constant challenge for his non-linear brain), but his real passions revolve around being married to Jill, and raising Thing One (Ethan, 3) and Thing Two (Asher, 1). He writes over at Living in the Tension
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Matthew Paul Turner
Matthew Paul Turner is a blogger, speaker and author of nearly 20 books including Churched, Hear No Evil and The Coffeehouse Gospel. He is also a passionate advocate for World Vision. Before he began writing and speaking full-time, he served as editor of CCM and music and entertainment editor of Crosswalk.com. He and his wife Jessica, along with their two kids, live in Nashville, Tenn.
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Megan Tietz – Editor, A Deeper Family
For as long as she can remember, Megan Tietz has been writing stories in her head. She’s no stranger to make-believe, but lives for the redemptive threads that weave together the stuff of real life. Though she was born in Houston with a heart branded by the Lone Star State, she grew up along creek beds and lake shores in Oklahoma and now lives on its windswept plains with her husband and two brown-eyed girls. For over six years, she has written about faith, family, and natural living at SortaCrunchy. She is the parenting and kids columnist at Simple Mom and co-author of Spirit-Led Parenting: From Fear to Freedom in Baby’s First Year. More likely to be loquacious rather than succinct, she’s always up for conversation, especially when it’s shared over a cup of hot coffee.
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Robin Dance
In the midst of a scandalous affair with her college sweetheart, Robin is as Southern as sugar-shocked tea but nowhere near as sweet. Affections are sewn right on her sleeves for her daughter (20) and two sons (15 & 18) and she’s still holding out hope for Neverland. She’s an honest doubter who believes God uses that very thing to woo her to His side. Until further notice her favorite word is luscious. Robin can’t wait to learn more about you and she awards bonus points for those who understand why PENSIEVE is a brilliant blog name.
