Carol Van Klompenburg has worked with words and stories for over four decades. (If you count her first-grade poetry prize, that duration is longer.) She has published fourteen books. The first of these was a nominee for the Christianity Today Book of the Year Award. Her articles, short stories, and poems have appeared in books and periodicals, as well as in her weekly columns in newspapers.
Carol Van Klompenburg not only writes books; she also offers performances for Iowa churches, social groups, senior centers, clubs, sororities, gardening groups, and more. She has a master’s degree in theater arts and has crisscrossed Iowa as part of Firefly Productions, providing readers theater presentations sponsored by Humanities Iowa.