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Emily T. Wierenga is an award-winning journalist, artist, and the author of four books.
She is a columnist for the Christian Courier and Prodigal Magazine, and a paid contributor to The High Calling. In addition to being associate editor, ghostwriter, copy editor, and staff writer, Wierenga has written for Christianity Today (Kyria), Christian Week, Faith Today, Adbusters, Geez, The Anglican Planet, Focus on the Family, Christian Courier, and In Touch.
She is a columnist for the Christian Courier and Prodigal Magazine, and a paid contributor to The High Calling. In addition to being associate editor, ghostwriter, copy editor, and staff writer, Wierenga has written for Christianity Today (Kyria), Christian Week, Faith Today, Adbusters, Geez, The Anglican Planet, Focus on the Family, Christian Courier, and In Touch.
Emily speaks regularly across the continent
at women’s retreats, universities, churches and conferences, about her journey
with anorexia nervosa, and was one of the keynote speakers at the premiere
Christian eating disorders conference, Hungry for Hope 2013, where she spoke
alongside Kirsten Haglund, Miss America 2008 on the woman’s calling.
Emily serves as an Official Ambassador for FINDINGbalance and is a Navigator with the National
Eating Disorders Association.
She has appeared multiple times on 100 Huntley Street, The
Drew Marshall Show and Chris Fabry Live!, as well
as on Breakfast Television Edmonton.
Each Thursday Wierenga hosts an online group
which attracts 60-80 links weekly through her blog.
Currently a member
of the writer’s group, She Writes, Ms. Wierenga has also served as a member of
Canada’s only Christian writing group, The Word Guild. In June of 2009 a piece
of Ms. Wierenga’s writing won a trip to a fiction workshop in Lake Como, Italy.
She is represented by Sandra Bishop of MacGregor
Literary.
Personal Bio:
I come from a home-schooling heritage; my mum has overcome brain cancer. She is my song. My dad is her hero. He cares for her daily, and pastors a church. I am the eldest of four.
I love to travel. In June of 2009, an excerpt from one of my books secured a trip to a writing workshop in Lake Como, Italy; I’ve also been to the Dominican Republic, Australia, Korea–where Trent and I taught English for a year–Lebanon, Jordan, Japan, China, Mexico, Holland, England and Germany. When I was young, I lived in Africa along with my parents who were missionaries.
My husband, Trenton, is a math and science teacher. We’ve been married nine and a half years, have two beautiful boys named Aiden Grey (born Nov. 12, 2009) and Kasher Jude (July 25, 2011) and are foster parents to Joey and Jin. We live in rural Alberta, where we snowboard, make wine and go geocaching.
When I'm not writing or speaking, I play guitar, and paint. See my Etsy shop here.
Mine is a broken story, shared regularly at my blog.
Thank you, for standing with me in this literary and artistic chaos.
Live in Love,
e.
