LaDonna Friesen received her M.A. in English from Missouri State University and has been a fulltime English professor at Evangel University in Springfield, MO for fourteen years. She has presented papers at Middle Tennessee University and Oral Roberts University. Academic publications include articles on British authors George MacDonald and C.S. Lewis. Her creative writing has been published in Epiphany, Adelaide, and Conference on Christianity and Literature, a Sage publication. She finds stories and poems in everyday life.