One of five girls born into a poor pastor’s family and raised to teach school, I fell in love with poetry, literature, and theater from a young age. The success of the plays I wrote in my teens and early twenties skyrocketed me into the height of British literary and dramatic society, where I lived and mixed with all my biggest heroes -- and for a while, felt like I had arrived. But I increasingly became disillusioned with the shallowness of what I was doing “for the Lord,” and committed to start serving Him more purposefully. Now I’m trying to dedicate all my time and energies to the causes I believe are most important, using my most influential tool: my pen.