Christine Dente

Christine Dente is the author of "The Woman in the Willow," a story about a woman struggling to forget her traumatic past by hiding away in her homemade haven.

She also wrote "Lifelines: Tracing My Journey in Story and Song," a book of stories from her childhood and the songs they inspired.

She also writes her blog: “Finding Life in the Bigger Story” at christinedenteoutofthegrey.com.

As a mother, wife, and communicator, she reveals her struggles with balancing faith, vulnerability, and fear. She also shares her joys with finding new personal freedoms as she gets older.

Known as the singer/songwriter for recording artist Out of the Grey, she has also written a workbook/ handbook entitled, "The Singer and The Songwriter: An Idea Book for Songwriters Who Like to Sing and Singers Who Like to Write Songs."

Christine loves the creative process and its ability to reach beneath layers of the mind to find the heart. With her fiction, she looks for the stories woven into the world’s fabric like the hidden root systems connecting the trees and all living things.

Christine grew up in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and received her BFA at Berklee College of Music in Boston where she met her husband, Scott. After graduation and marriage in 1987, they loaded up the truck and moved to Tennessee. Nashville, that is, where they raised three children and recorded lots of music.

In her own words: “A friend once reminded me that we write our own medicine. As a writer, I am able to work through my issues using the remedies of words and music. Fiction and prose can soothe my soul, working into the deeper layers of me. Many readers find that the words of my medicine and the meditations of my heart inspire and encourage them on their own journeys.”