The workshop, The Soul Tells a Story, is now in its sixth year and growing


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Vinita Hampton Wright has been editing books for fifteen years, having worked full-time for three publishers and currently part-time for Loyola Press in Chicago. Her skills as an editor are well known, and occasionally she accepts free-lance projects in editing and coaching.

She began writing in grammar school but majored in music education, graduating from Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg, KS in 1982. She worked as a teacher in Jordan for altogether three years and in the Missouri public school system for two. After receiving her master’s degree in communications from Wheaton College in the early 1990s, she worked as an assistant editor for Harold Shaw Publishers, moving from there to Tyndale House and finally to Loyola Press. While working full-time as an editor she wrote her first two novels, Grace at Bender Springs and Velma Still Cooks in Leeway. She later shortened her editing schedule in order to dedicate more time and energy to her writing and workshop career.

Her experience in working with writers, in addition to her own work as a fiction writer, led Vinita into creating a workshop for helping artists better understand the connections between their creative work and spiritual life. This workshop, The Soul Tells a Story, is now in its sixth year and growing. In 2005 she published the book The Soul Tells a Story (InterVarsity Press), which grew out of her work as a retreat/workshop facilitator.

In 1991, Vinita married Jim Wright, a photographer and graphic designer. They lived in the Chicago neighborhood of Hyde Park until January of 2005, when they moved to a small bungalow on the city’s far south side. Through her stepsons Nathan and Josh, Vinita is grandma to Alexis, Gabriel, and Deja. She and Jim also enjoy the company of Nala the dog and Little Buddha the cat.

When she’s not writing, editing, or workshopping, Vinita is likely cooking for friends and neighbors, hiking around the city, or trying to catch up on books and films. She has a book of essays in process, as well as a new novel set in a Chicago neighborhood.