Ann Voskamp, is the wife of a full-time farmer, the mother of 6, and the New York Times best-selling author of One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are. She is a passionate global advocate and communicator for the poor through her partnership with Compassion International.

Her background in education from York University and the University of Waterloo laid a firm foundation for her work. She is a columnist with DaySpring, a contributing editor to Laity Lodge’s, The High Calling, with articles featured in WORLD Magazine, the Huffington Post, and Christianity Today. However, what matters most to Ann are the words that she simply lives.  Every day, an avid international community looking for crazy grace and daily joy find authenticity and true solace in the stories she writes in her unique, quiet corner of the web.