Donna Wyland is an award-winning author, editor, and ICF-certified coach. Two of her picture books, Psalms in Rhyme for Little Hearts and 'Twas the Night Before Jesus were Readers' Choice Award Finalists. In addition, 'Twas the Night Before Jesus won the 2025 Illumination Award Silver Medal, and Psalms in Rhyme for Little Hearts won the 2024 Christian Indie Award.She was recognized by Writer's Digest for her poetry, and she won Writer of the Year at the Flor-ida Christian Writer's Conference in 2018 where she was awarded top honors for her devotionals, humor, poetry, and flash fiction. She has writ-ten for Clubhouse, Jr., Focus on the Family, and Story Friends magazines, and she has contrib-uted personal essays and poems to numerous publications.Donna's books have been gifted to thousands of children around the world through Military Ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ, All God's Children International, The Library of Hope, Manners of the Heart Community Fund, and many other individuals and organizations. Her picture books were also featured at a book sign-ing at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia.Donna has traveled extensively to interna-tional destinations and loves meeting people from all cultures. She is a former lay counselor and worship singer, and she has shared her testi-mony with women's groups in various churches across the United States.She writes in her home office in South-west Florida and dreams of learning Italian and French to prepare her for more trips to faraway places around the world.
