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 nineteen years in the Chicago area. 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 editor for Harold Shaw Publishers, moving from there to Tyndale House and finally to Loyola Press, where she continues as senior editor. She published her first novel, Grace at Bender Springs, in 1999, followed the next year by Velma Still Cooks in Leeway. Her third novel, Dwelling Places, received the Christianity Today award for Best Fiction of 2007.

Vinita created 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 tenth 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 2009, Vinita wrote Days of Deepening Friendship and has created a workshop by that name that deals with the spiritual experience of women.

Vinita has been married to photographer Jim Wright for eighteen years. They lived in the Chicago neighborhood of Hyde Park until January of 2005, when they moved to the city’s far south side. Through her stepsons Nathan and Josh, Vinita is grandma to Alexis, Gabriel, Deja, and Dakota. She and Jim also enjoy the company of dogs Nala and Buddy and cats Little Buddha and Mr. Bones.

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.