Deryn van der Tang

Deryn is a writer, artist, and lover of nature and travel. Born in the previously named Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), from 1820 Settler pioneering stock, she has traveled the world, moving to South Africa and the United Kingdom. She retired from her career as an exploration cartographer and housing manager and now lives in the United States of America. Her rich adventures have enabled her to write about transforming life’s experiences. Deryn is a contributing author/illustrator to several books and travel articles. She writes for her “Crossing My Bridges” blog about transitions through grief, new destinations, spiritual wounding, and the second half of life. She has contributed to “How 7 Women of Faith Manifest GODLY Success Through Spiritual Intimacy.” She also contributed to the “In All Things” and "Road to Victory" anthologies and published two devotional Books, “Sunrise to Sunset” and “Who Am I? What has God got to Do with It? Does it Matter?”. She published a Christian self-help book, “The Journey: Your Guide from Loss to the Land of New Dreams,” and her first illustrated children’s picture book, “Who is Mouse’s Friend?” She is passionate about historical stories and publishing the Chereton Series of Memoirs and Stories of her ancestoral history. The first being her grandmother Gladys Ellen Maybery, in "The Singer and the Story."