Joni Sensel

Joni Sensel is the author of more than a dozen nonfiction titles for adults and five novels for young readers, including a Junior Library Guild selection. She holds an MFA in writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts (2015) and has served in leadership roles for the Society of Children’s Books Writers & Illustrators (SCBWI). Over the past twenty years, Sensel has taught dozens of writing workshops and seminars in locations from Alaska to Amsterdam. A certified grief educator and trained First Aid Arts responder, she has recently focused her teaching on creativity and spirituality. Sensel’s adventures have taken her to the corners of fifteen countries, the heights of the Cascade Mountains, the length of an Irish marathon, and the depths of love. She lives at the knees of Mount Rainier in Washington State with a puppy who came into her life as a gift that reflected afterlife influence.