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Deb Elkink

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Deb Elkink, a city girl gone country, spent the first two-decade period of her life growing up in Winnipeg, Manitoba; the second raising three kids with her cattle-ranching husband on the remote prairies of Saskatchewan; and the third studying at seminary and then writing at her kitchen table in a cottage on the banks of a creek in southern Alberta (a stone's throw from the Montana border). She travels widely—and the setting, food, characters, and culture of her destinations make their way into her fiction.

Deb writes with women in mind—the settled and the homeless, the faithful and the spiritually yearning, those with answers and those who don't know quite what to ask. She loves the Bible and believes that only in its pages will readers find ultimate reality. Meanwhile—until they make their way to Scripture—her joy is to retell its timeless truths by arousing the physical senses and metaphysical longings that find their satisfaction only in personal relationship with the Creator through His Son as mitigated by the Word.

Deb's stories and articles have been published in various magazines including Christian History, and her debut novel—The Third Grace—won The Word Guild's "book of the year" Grace Irwin Award in 2012.

Website: http://www.debelkink.com/