Grant says her faith and writing are connected primarily through her understanding of the beauty of God being an unnecessary abundance. She appreciates how the artist Makoto Fujimura talks about the passage of the woman washing Jesus’s feet with her hair and how she will be remembered by that act.
Read MoreDouglass said she doesn’t have a specific writing schedule because writing is not her primary vocation. “It is a major way that I do the things I think God sends me to do, which is communicating and encouraging people in their walks with God. If you were to ask me to pick the word that describes me, it's ‘encourage,’ and writing and speaking are the two most visible ways I do that, but I also do a lot of one-on-one conversations.
Read MorePoulin’s writing journey feels very connected to her faith journey. She started writing poems when she was a child. She says, “I was eight or nine years old and would sit outside on the front porch with my little spiral notebook and write. That was how I connected with God. I wrote poems and stories all the time. Writing helped me feel like I was a part of something bigger than myself.” She appreciates that her parents took her seriously as a writer. They gave her a huge book of Emily Dickinson poems when she was 13 years old that she says she “lugged around very importantly.”
Read MoreVreeland’s writing journey and faith journey overlap a great deal. During his junior year of high school, his track coach and English teacher encouraged him to write. He told Vreeland, “You have a voice. You have something to say. You should write from a Christian perspective.” He ended up heeding that advice and took an advanced humanities course in high school where he began his writing journey.
Read MoreIn her first book, One by One, which came out in 2017, Dalfonzo wrote about single people in the church. The topic was very important to her, and she worked on it for several years. She says, “I wanted to get that experience out there and tell other Christians about it and help other Christians navigate being single in the church. I also wanted to help the church as a whole know we’re out there, these are the kinds of things we’re going through, and we need you to listen and try to understand, and work with us.”
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