Charlotte Donlon’s writing and work are always rooted in helping her readers, audience, and clients notice how art and other good things help them belong to themselves, others, the divine, and the world.

Charlotte's first book, The Great Belonging: How Loneliness Leads Us to Each Other, was published by Broadleaf Books in 2020. The Great Belonging explores various angles of loneliness and belonging. In vulnerable, thoughtful prose, Donlon helps us understand our own occasional or frequent loneliness and offers touchpoints for understanding alienation. She is currently writing her second book, Spiritual Direction for Writers, which will be published by Eerdmans in 2024 or 2025.

Charlotte is an author with a broad audience and a spiritual director for people who inhabit points all along the belief-unbelief spectrum. She includes some faith threads in her writing and work, but her words always strive to be generous and welcoming to people from different spiritual traditions, in addition to those who share her Christian beliefs.

Charlotte is the founder of Thoughtful Books Etc.™, One O’Clock Central, Spiritual Direction for Writers® , Spiritual Direction for Belonging™, and Parenting with Art™. Her essays have appeared in The Washington Post, The Curator, The Christian Century, Christianity Today, Catapult, The Millions, Mockingbird, and elsewhere. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing and a certificate in spiritual direction. To receive Charlotte’s latest updates, news, announcements, and all kinds of good things, subscribe here.

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