BIO
Elyn Joy's Writing Life, Ridiculously Abridged
The Boulder Flatirons
Photo taken by the author near Denver, Colorado USA
Elyn Joy is an American author from Denver, Colorado. The mountains are among the great loves in her life. She is ever enthralled with learning and growing and keeps a stack of (mostly science nerdy) books on her nightstand.
Elyn's published works include the recently released Samuel in the Quantum Field, for which she has created a program and workshop for students and educators. Elyn's other works include two children’s books, Everyone Has a Point of View (2018) and Once Upon a Pigeon and Other Retold Fables (C.R. Success Learning/Barnes & Noble, 2017); two health education books, The Gluten-Free Parent’s Survival Guide (2019) and The Gluten-Free Teen’s Survival Guide (2021); a series of personal biographies; and several articles for health/lifestyle magazines in the U.S. and Canada (including Gluten-Free Living, Simply Gluten-Free, and Whole Foods Magazine, among others), and The Book of Demons (A.J. Dalton, 2021) which features her story "The Demon in the Mirror."
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In addition, Elyn spent two years writing inspiring, research-based posts for an international thought leader. Currently, she is working on a lifestyle book for teens, using the Kabbalistic Tree of Life as a metaphor for the many areas and aspects of personal growth and manifestation.
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Whatever the project, Elyn tends to fight for—and write for—the misunderstood "other." As Madeleine D'Engle wrote, "We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home... "
Same House, Other Rooms
Same House, Different Rooms...
Elyn Joy as Editor
And Educator
Elyn's editing work has given her the great honor of working with renowned author Joanne Greenberg (I Never Promised You a Rose Garden), as well as with international thought leaders. She has also collaborated with famed speaker Scott Friedman (Celebrate: Lessons Learned from the World's Most Admired Organizations), and many other individual writers and organizations.
Throughout her decades-long teaching career, Elyn Joy has taught literature, journalism, and creative writing to students at varying ages and stages, including neurodiverse learners and those with learning differences. Her education-oriented books include the children's book and reader (see "Published Works") and a vast array of shorter educational books, curricular texts, and teacher training materials.
And Academic
In 2021, Elyn Joy earned her Master of Arts in Writing from Middlesex University of London.
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She also has a B.A. in English and a B.S. in Communications from The University of Texas.
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Yet of all her educational accomplishments, the one Elyn treasures the most is the one each of us has access to at all times: that of personal curiosity and observation, along with the desire to never stop learning or growing.