Addie Zierman has been speaking evangelical fluently since she was three years old. In her life, she has been a Bible study leader, prayer group founder, Sunday school teacher, worship band singer, and Awana Spark for Jesus. She still knows all the words to the song “Jesus Freak.”
In December 2010, Addie completed her Masters of Fine Arts at Hamline University, where she focused on the creative nonfiction genre. She hopes to find a good home for her spiritual coming-of-age memoir, How to Talk Evangelical.
Addie lives in Minnesota with her husband and two young sons. If you see her out, please don’t say anything about the streak of spit-up on her shirt. It will only embarrass her.
In addition to her creative work, Addie is also an experienced and business-savvy technical writer. To hire her to write your user’s manual, blog, musician bio, web pages, newsletters and other assorted projects, visit her at Addie Zierman Copywriting.
Addie,
Congrats on your accomplishments and I look forward to reading your blog. We love you guys and wish you all the best!
Cheers,
Matthew
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I just want to say that you.are.good. really.good. I didn’t grow up in this country, but still learned to speak evangelical until every cliche I ever knew was challenged. I first read your post Shoot Christians Say – and loved it. I wrote this piece (and I promise this is not about self promotion as much as to say, thanks for inspiring) http://communicatingacrossboundariesblog.com/2012/03/30/captured-by-no-cliche/ after I read your piece. So thank you. for your heart. for your gracious spirit even as you critically think through this language called evangelical! I look forward to reading a lot more of you.
Just getting into your blog and I’m really enjoying it! I just read your post Organic Christianity and when I saw “Andover” I thought “could it be.. Minnesota?!” I used to live in Anoka, now I’m in Rochester. Small world
Thanks for writing!!
How fun! Love finding other Minnesotans on here.
Thanks so much for reading.
Just a passer by and thought I would say how wonderful and relaxing I found reading your posts. Organic Christianity brought me your way, certainly glad it did
So glad you’re here. Thanks for the kind note!
Looking forward to reading your blog. The couple of post I have read so far were great.
I am so excited to find a Jesusy writer with an MFA. We’re rare. (Is there an official club? Let’s make one!)
Ha! Thanks Beth. I know there are more of us. One who comes instantly to mind is Micha Boyett. She’s awesome.
I’m a Jesusy writer who went to Biola AND has an MFA. I blog and teach creative writing at a university now. Can I join the club?
Addie, I wish we could have been in classes together–not at Christian college (though that would have been fun), but in our MFA programs. I find you to be a kindred spirit; I think I would have found myself stronger in your presence.
Absolutely! And I wish we could have too. I just remember feeling so lonely, like no one was where I was at. I wish I had known that that there were all of these people writing and grappling and working through their own struggle in such beautiful ways on the internet. So wonderful to find kindred people like you; so bittersweet to not get to go out for an actual drink or cup of coffee or sit next to each other (in real life) in a class. Anyway, thanks for this comment. It made me happy.
Good luck with the publication!
Hi again.
It was through a tweet from Preston Yancey that I discovered your blog. I will always be grateful–I love this concept! So needed. I haven’t read very many of the posts yet (but that will change!), but I already know I love it enough to add it to my favorite Christianity-related blogs roll on my own blog. (The blog linked to on my name is about issues of appearance and acceptance; my personal blog I’m referring to here is http://aroadlesstraveledblog.blogspot.com.)
Before reading this page I’d already realized we have much in common–evangelical upbringing, living or having lived in the Twin Cities (I grew up there, now live in Ohio)–but now I see that also we’ve both been or are technical writers. I did that for about 12 years. Say…I come back to MN every year at Christmas time (at least), and if you’re open to it, I’d love to meet you sometime!
Thanks so much for this kind note Connie. So glad that you can relate! And yes, I love meeting people who connect with the blog. Keep me posted when you’re in town!
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Hi Addie! It was so good to see you at church today! I don’t like that its so rush and go and barely enough time to say hi. I just got lost in your blog. Your posts resonate with some of my familiar mommy days:) Thanks for writing and hope to see you (and be able to really chat!) soon!
Jess S.
Thanks so much Jess! (Yes, leaving church with little ones makes things crazy.) Thanks so much for the kind note and for reading! (I agree. Let’s catch up soon!)