Edith Adhiambo is a Christian Woman who lives in Nairobi, Kenya.
Originally from Wisconsin, Andrea spent the past seventeen years in Lancaster, PA, before returning to her homeland of cheese and lakes. She is an Orthodox Christian, a wife, and a mother of six children. Andrea is a former director of an English language program for refugees and English language learners in her community, which she devoted her heart and soul to for eight years. She loves trees, lakes, animals, reading, writing, painting, gardening, and making soap. Andrea holds a Bachelor's degree from Briercrest College and an English as a Foreign Language certificate from Wisconsin English as a Second Language Institute. Presently, her primary work is facilitating healing at home. When circumstances allow, she attempts to write honestly about this life given to her, her faith, and the ways that her family's adoption journey has forever changed her understanding of love.
Summer Kinard is senior editor of Park End Books. She is an Orthodox Christian author and workshop leader specializing in accessibility and the theology of disability. In her blog posts and her latest book, Of Such is the Kingdom: A Practial Theology of Disability (Ancient Faith Publishing, 2019), Summer brings her extensive background in church history and theology (B.A. in religion, M.Div., Th.M. in early church history and theology) to skillfully weave together the healing patterns of Holy Tradition with the daily patterns of life with disabilities. Her other devotional work appears in Seven Holy Women: Conversations with Saints and Friends (Ancient Faith Publishing, 2020). Summer has an Adverse Childhood Experiences Score of 9/10. She is a cycle-breaker who bears witness to the goodness of the Lord, who works everything together for our salvation. She lives with her husband and their five children of joy in Texas. Read more of Summer's work at SummerKinard.com.
Christina Baker is a writer, mother, and homeschooler from Lafayette, Louisiana. She holds a B.A. in Latin and Classical Studies from Tulane University, and she studied Early Christianity for a year at the University of Notre Dame. She has a poem forthcoming in Highlights Hello magazine. Her poetry appears in the Mighty Is Her Call blog. You can read more of her work at whiletheyweresleeping.com.
Stasia Braswell is a student of psychology, philosophy, and theology. She bakes, she knits, she sings. Stasia is currently enrolled in an undergraduate college in the middle of nowhere, hoping that her degree will get her somewhere. She has been formally Orthodox for two years but called to Christ all her life.
Emily Byers is a consecrated virgin in the Catholic Church, a vocation that revives a tradition from apostolic times when certain women experienced a divine invitation to sacrifice marriage and offer their virginity to God. On behalf of Jesus Christ and the entire Church, her bishop received her resolution to live a life of perpetual chastity in a public liturgy in 2012. Since her consecration, she has taught full-time at a local Catholic school, and she also assists young women who are discerning a possible religious vocation. She studied Spanish and Creative Writing at Louisiana State University and earned an M.A. in Theological Studies from Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans. Find more of her writing at aconsecratedvirgin.wordpress.com.
Bev. Cooke is an Orthodox Christian freelance writer and editor. She is author of akathists including the Akathist to St. Mary of Egypt; Akathist to the Theotokos, Healer of Hardened Hearts; and the Akathist to St. Emmelia for Our Lost Lambs (Coming 2021 with Park End Books). Her novels include Feral (Orca Book Publishers, 2008), Royal Monastic (Conciliar Press, 2008), and Keeper of the Light (Conciliar Press, 2006). Find more of Bev's writing at https://bevnalabbeyscriptorium.wordpress.com/. Bev and her husband live in British Columbia Canada in servitude to the Ruler of the Household, Sam the Cat.
Sarah resides in Lancaster, Pennsylvania with her husband and large brood of children. She owns a soap company, gardens, and speaks shamelessly with her chickens, rabbits, and bees. Her first book, Letters for Pilgrimage: Lenten Meditations for Teen Girls, releases in 2021 with Park End Books.
David Moses runs Past-Itch Comics and is a cartoonist + designer + illustrator + muralist.He is the creator of GALACTIC JUNK SQUAD (Well, More Like Family), and has collaborated on projects such as Creatures from the Chaos Realm, Vacuum Decay, and Final Frontiersman.Knightdale, NC
Catherine holds an MFA in fiction from the Sewanee School of Letters and has written for Books and Culture and The Curator. She is currently a columnist for Ruminate and a 2020 Emerging Writer at the Collegeville Institute.
Emily Hubbard is from Mississippi but now lives in St. Louis, where her husband pastors a multiethnic church. She loves sociology, public education, reading, crocheting, gardening, and sertraline.
Allison Boyd Justus, a poet from Tennessee, is the author of Solstice to Solstice to Solstice: A Year of Sunrises in Poetry (Alternating Current Press, 2017), currently pursuing a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing and Environment at Iowa State University. She holds a Master of Arts degree in New Testament Studies (Freed-Hardeman University, 2009), and her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in High Shelf Poetry, The Showbear Family Circus, Shift: A Publication of MTSU Write, Lyrical Iowa, Penwood Review, Madcap Review, Quail Bell Magazine, Contemporary American Voices, and elsewhere.
Phoebe is the author of Putting Joy into Practice: Seven Ways to Lift Your Spirit from the Early Church (Paraclete Press, 2019). She blogs at Being in Community (beingincommunity.com), and she teaches writing at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Phoebe is a clergy wife in the Coptic Orthodox Church and the mother of three children.
Lynnette Ochieng is an IT Administrator by profession. She is a thirty-two-year-old, beautiful African lady who resides in the small city of Kisumu, in Kenya- East Africa. Lynnette graduated from Kampala University with a Bachelors in Computer Science and Information Technology. Lynnette enjoys reading during her free time, listening to music and dancing. She is part of the worship and intercessory team in her local church. She is fluent in Swahili and English languages, both written and spoken. She is currently learning French.
Ree has many titles including; coffee-lover, Mama, and poet - but above all, she belongs to God.
Dr. Nicole Roccas is an Orthodox Christian communications professional and an adjunct faculty member at the Orthodox School of Theology at Trinity College (University of Toronto). Nicole contributes to Ancient Faith Radio as host of the Time Eternal podcast and blog and the Help My Unbelief podcast, which she produces with her husband. Her books include Time and Despondency: Regaining the Present in Faith and Life (Ancient Faith Publishing, 2017), which explores the relationship between human perceptions of time and the spiritual sickness of acedia, Under the Laurel Tree: Grieving Infertility with Saints Joachim and Anna (Ancient Faith Publishing, 2019), and A Journal of Thanksgiving (Ancient Faith Publishing, 2020). She has her PhD in History from the University of Cincinnati and attends Holy Myrrhbearers Orthodox Mission in downtown Toronto.
Kristina Roth is a freelance editor and writer, an Orthodox Christian, and solo mom to an amazing boy. They live in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Please visit her at www.kristinatrue.com or on social media.
Sharon lives in West Michigan near her children and grandchildren. She served in women's ministry through Bible studies, retreats, and women's conferences in Ukraine and Africa. Prior to that, she cared for her husband for 15 years of their 30-year marriage until he lost his battle with MS.
Monica Spoor is an Orthodox Christian. She holds a Bachelor's of Theology from the Evangelische Theologische Hogeschool in Ede and resides in Veenendaal, the Netherlands.
Emry Sunderland holds degrees in writing and history; she is a compassionate naturalist and advocate for self-responsibility in creating an abundant future. Her work has appeared in APT (Climate issue), Qutub Minar Review, and more. Read more from Emry at emrysunderland.yolasite.com.
A. N. Tallent is a gothic, stay-at-home mom and an Adult Survivor of Narcissistic Abuse and Child Abuse. Writing is her passion and an outlet that has seen her through many difficult years. Her life's dream is to marry her writing, experiences, and faith in a way that could help encourage and inspire others. She spent most of her childhood in Pennsylvania before moving to Florida at age twelve where she eventually married her high school sweetheart and graduated from a Christian, evangelical, Bible college with a B.A. in Missions. After several misadventures, cross-country moves, and daring escapes, she found herself converting to Eastern Orthodoxy and was chrismated at St. John Chrysostom Antiochian Church in 2018. She loves reading, tabletop RPGs, painting, video games, singing, birds, and tornadoes. She currently lives in York, Pennsylvania with her fabulous husband and adorable daughter, but she left a part of her heart in Japan.
Beth Thielman is a lifelong writer. Her body of work includes blogging, creative writing, and marketing content. She is an Orthodox Christian with an abiding interest in theology, literature, travel, and good conversation. Beth lives in her hometown of Nashville, Tennessee, with her husband, John.
Laura Wilson is a painter and designer, homeschooling mother of three daughters, and a PhD student with an MTh in Applied Orthodox Theology. Her diverse background is the result of a daughter of a fundamentalist minister reclaiming joy from abstraction, and as a woman of faith, finding it in repentance and the complexity of spiritual and material existence.
