B J Young

Brenda Young writes under the name of B.J.Young. After retiring from a rewarding career in nursing, she continued to feel a need to nurture those who were hurting. She started to help others by writing devotionals and inspirational short stories. Her prayer is that everything she writes will encourage others to make the best of the life given to them.

She now writes short stories and devotionals for two magazines published by Front Porch Publishing. She has been a contributing author to anthologies and devotional books,including Gary Chapman's "Love is a Verb Devotions". She has been published by Guideposts and Angels on Earth magazines. Her debut novel, the first book of her Dawn Trilogy, "A Portrait of Dawn" was a semi-finalist in the ACFW Genesis contest and was published in February 2013. Its sequel, "Dawn's New Day, A Love Story" was released in June, 2013 and "Reflections of Dawn" in February of 2014. Her most recent novel, "A Season for Sarah was released in October of 2014. She and her husband live in Northwest Ohio, where she enjoys her children and grandchildren.

She is a member of ACFW and Northwest Ohio Christian Writers.

She blogs regularily at http://www.bjyoung28.blogspot.com/