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About Charlotte Donlon

Charlotte Donlon’s writing and work help her readers, audience, and clients notice how art and other good things help them belong to themselves, others, the divine, and the world. This exploration of belonging is a sort of soulful noticing common to all humans regardless of one's faith tradition or lack thereof. Her readers and clients appreciate that she isn’t pushy about issues connected to faith and spirituality. Many of her spiritual direction clients and members of her broader audience come from faith traditions different from her own. Several people who meet with her aren't even sure what they believe, which is fine because she uses a framework of belonging and language of connection to have meaningful, soulful conversations.

Charlotte's first book, The Great Belonging: How Loneliness Leads Us to Each Other, was published by Broadleaf Books in 2020. She is currently writing Spiritual Direction for Writers which will be published by Eerdmans in 2025.

Charlotte is the founder of Belonging through Art, Spiritual Direction for Writers®, Spiritual Direction for Belonging™, and Parenting with Art®. Her essays have appeared in The Washington Post, The Curator, The Christian Century, Christianity Today, Catapult, The Millions, Mockingbird, and elsewhere. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing and a certificate in spiritual direction. To receive Charlotte’s latest updates, news, announcements, and all kinds of good things, subscribe here.

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