Magnificent Grace

A native of Southern California, Caroline Mertens moved to Colorado during high school. Her grandmother's immigration tales of adventure, love, pain, and redemption always provided ample amounts of hope, grace, and literary inspiration, as described in the story line of  In Those Other Lands . Caroline received her B.A. in English Literature and Secondary Education from Colorado Christian University in the Denver area. After her own extensive voyages overseas teaching, writing, and participating in linguistic studies, Caroline returned to Colorado, where she met her husband. They lived and worked in Western Colorado for five years and the north Chicago suburbs for three years before returning to Colorado. Caroline has worked as a high school English teacher, a non-profit writer, an assistant to a Young Life director, and a magazine editorial assistant, among other roles over the years, but her favorite calling is being a mother to her three children. Caroline is passionat