To see what Vinita is doing currently, you can find her posting regularly on the Loyola Press blog, Days of Deepening Friendship (http://deepeningfriendship.loyolapress.com). These days she is editing, blogging, giving workshops and retreats, and working on a new novel (yet to be named and too young and fragile to be exposed to the outside world). She's also on Facebook and Twitter.Vinita Hampton Wright has been a book editor for twenty-three years, currently senior editor at Loyola Press in Chicago. She leads workshops around the country on the creative-spiritual process--The Soul Tells a Story grew out of this work. Of her full-length novels, Velma Still Cooks in Leeway won a Logos Book-of-the-Year award, and Dwelling Places was selected by Christianity Today as Best Fiction of 2007.Wright has published an updated edition of Simple Acts of Moving Forward. Days of Deepening Friendship focuses on the spiritual experience of women. She now leads retreats on this topic (contact her at wright@loyolapress.com). Her most recent book is The Art of Spiritual Writing: How to Craft Prose That Engages and Inspires Your Readers, based on her many years helping writers express their spiritual wisdom.Vinita loves to cook, walk the city of Chicago, and watch movies. She and photographer/designer Jim Wright have been married 22 years. They share a bungalow on the far South Side with 2 cats and a dog, all of them rescues, all spoiled, and--depending on the day--helpful or not to Vinita's creative process. Vinita is finally learning to garden and now adds homegrown tomatoes, peppers, and herbs to her little feasts.