Herta B. Feely

Herta Feely is the author of two award-winning novels, Strange Shape of Love and Saving Phoebe Murrow. They are suspense-filled works of fiction that grapple with issues surrounding social media and the dark web and their impact on our culture. Saving Phoebe won several awards, including the 2018 National Indie Excellence Award and the Readers Favorite. Her new novel, Strange Shape of Love, is a BookFest winner and NIEA finalist. Her short stories and memoir have appeared in anthologies and literary journals. Her essay, “The Wall” (about immigration), received the American Independent Writers award, and her unpublished novel, The Trials of Serra Blue, was awarded the James Jones First Novel Fellowship. She explores the fine line between fact and fiction in "Confessions: Fact or Fiction?" -- an anthology of 22 writers' fiction and short memoir pieces. In 2007, Herta founded Chrysalis Editorial, where she works with writers as an editor, writing coach, and ghostwriter. She is the co-founder of Safe Kids Worldwide, an organization dedicated to the prevention of unintentional childhood injuries, a leading killer of children in the US. Married, with two sons, Herta circles the globe in search of adventure and once or twice a year produces a new needlepoint pillow.