 HEATHER ZYDEK is a journalist by trade who has found work in recent years as a newspaper and magazine editor, book publicist, college-level English composition instructor and children's writer. She's contributed to a number of publications on the local and national level, including RELEVANT and Radiant Magazine. After earning her Bachelor's in Public Relations from Illinois State University and her Master's in Journalism from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, she began working as a freelance writer, contributing articles and later becoming an assistant editor at The Handmaiden Journal. In late 2004, she started writing feature stories for The Hub, a community newspaper in Champaign, Illinois, where she helped launch the paper's community section. She later served as managing editor for The Hub's city guide in the summer of 2006. That same year, Heather edited two titles for Relevant Books, including The Revolution: A Field Manual for Changing Your World and The Relevant Nation: 50 Activists, Artists and Innovators Who are Changing Their World Through Faith. Her first novel, Basil's Search for Miracles, was released in the spring of 2007. She continues to work on other creative writing projects in her spare time and is in the process of completing a second novel, tentatively titled The Holy Fool of Firefly Woods. |