I have been writing since I learned how to hold a pencil. My parents gave me a journal when I was seven years old, and I’ve never abandoned the habit. I majored in English in college with an emphasis in creative writing, but I wrote privately (think old school blogging like Xanga and Blogger) for years. After an intense decade of suffering came to a startling close, I began to blog publicly under my own name as a way to process the trauma I had endured. As it turns out, that was when the shift moved from writing for myself to writing for others. That was in the spring of 2016. I followed the path that many writers take who want to go beyond hobby-writing: I joined an online writers group and learned the ins and outs of blogging, publishing, and networking, I attended a couple of writers conferences, and I began putting together a book proposal.
I pitched my first book proposal in the summer of 2017, signed a contract in September 2017 with my first publisher for my first book, The Promise is His Presence, and the book was published August 1, 2019. You can read all about my book here.
Who is this book for?
The Promise is His Presence is for those walking through trials or compounded suffering who wonder where God is in their pain. Deferred hopes, unfulfilled longings, open-ended suffering—these are dark nights of the soul that can send us on the run from the God we thought loved us. Or, they can send us right into His loving arms. This book explores themes of infertility, chronic pain disease, adoption trauma, church hurt, loneliness, and more as it traces the promise of God’s sustaining presence throughout all of Scripture. Are you or someone you know hurting and questioning God’s love? This book is for you.
While chipping away at revisions and edits on my first book, I pitched another book idea to an editor with a different publisher in the fall of 2018, and walked away at the end of the year with another contract. My second book, Everyday Faithfulness, was published with Crossway on June 2, 2020. You can read more about it here.
Who is this book for?
I wanted to know how regular, ordinary Christians maintain lifelong faithfulness to Jesus when life seems to always get in the way. I looked around at the saints I’ve known who have finished their race well, and I examined what kept them on the path of faithfulness. Everyday Faithfulness explores what it looks like to walk with Christ through every season of life with confidence that His faithfulness will sustain you. I think every Christian wants to know how to remain steadfast. If that’s you, then this book is for you.
My third book, Memorizing Scripture: The Basics, Blessings, & Benefits of Meditating on God’s Word was published with Moody Publishing in August, 2023. I loved writing this book because I got to live it first, which was life-changing.
Who is this book for?
Memorizing Scripture is primarily an aid to spiritual growth. It’s for any Christian who wants to grow in their love for the Lord, experience victory over sin, and grow in wisdom and discernment. This isn’t just a how-to, it’s also a why-to!
My fourth book, Known & Loved, was published on July 1, 2025 with Moody Publishers. This book was hard to write but so encouraging to think through and study. The concept of God’s love is difficult to grasp sometimes, but paired with his omniscience—it is the most comforting thing in the universe. I wanted to help readers see that His steadfast love never changes.
Who is this book for?
This book is for anyone who struggles to believe that God can know them as well as He does and yet still love them individually. It walks through Psalm 139 with a gospel lens, exploring the ways our God is for us and keeps us.
Known & Loved won an ECPA award in October 2025 as one of the top 50 new bestsellers!
In April, 2026, my fifth book, Bible Study released with Crossway. In this short book, I walk the reader through a doable Bible study method without the need for any supplemental materials. I’ve been teaching this method for ten years (and using it for longer), so I was grateful to get to put it into a book format.
Who is this book for?
This book is for anyone who is overwhelmed by the prospect of studying the Bible for themselves. You can do it!
Bible Study won an ECPA award in July 2026 as one of the top 50 new bestsellers!
My sixth book, Praying in Pain: How to Know You’re Heard When You Haven’t Been Healed, was published in June, 2026 with Moody Publishers. The most personal book I’ve written, this book is about my struggle with a chronic pain condition for the past sixteen years. I developed The Sufferer’s Lament to help readers learn how to pray in pain while modeling the lament psalms. This book is more than just a prayer guide, though. It’s a theology of suffering designed to encourage those in the thick of pain and sorrow.
Who is this book for?
This book is for anyone who suffers from a chronic condition. If that’s not you, I bet you know someone who would benefit from this book, so I wrote it as a resource to share with the person you love who lives in pain.
