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CHYNNA T. LAIRD – a mother of three beautiful girls Jaimie (seven), Jordhan (five) and baby Sophie (two) and a gorgeous baby boy Xander (three). In addition to living her dream building up her at-home freelance writing business (Lily Wolf Words), she's also studying to obtain her B.A. in Psychology, specializing in Early Childhood Development.
Her hobbies include writing, reading, playing piano and crafting with her girls. A lot of the material she writes about includes childhood experiences, her adventures as a Mom and her personal observations.
 Chynna's work has been published in various Christian, parenting, writing and inspirational magazines in Canada, the United States, Britain and Australia (see "Published Works" for details). As well, she has a personal essay featured in Chicken Soup For The Soul: Children With Special Needs and one in each of Cup Of Comfort For Special Needs Parents and the newly released Cup Of Comfort For Fathers.
   She is most proud of her award-winning children's picture book, "I'm Not Weird, I Have SPD" where she describes--through the voice and perspective of four-year old Alexandra--what it's like to live with Sensory Processing Disorder. She wrote this book for Jaimie, who lives with SPD, to give her the words to inform others about her struggles.
It's important to Chynna to continually grow and change in her craft. She takes writing courses such as children's literature, Long Ridge Writers' Group's Novel course, the Journeyman course through Christian Writer's Guild and various advance fiction writing courses through University.
She was as an Intern with WOW-womenonwriting for a month then moved up to Contributing Editor for a year. She was responsible for writing two monthly columns in WOW’s Premium Green ebook newsletter. In order to focus more time on her children's needs, Chynna stepped down from her Editor postion but continues with WOW as a Contributing Writer/Interviewer.
Chynna also contributes to Amaze, Behavioral Health Center, My Unique Kid, Parenting Special Needs and Mindful Mama zines.
Chynna is a member of the Professional Writers Association of Canada (PWAC), The International Women's Writing Guild, The Writers-Editors Network, Christian Writers' Guild, The Canadian Author's Association as well as The Writers Guild of Alberta. She has Press Cards through the PWAC and the Writers-Editors Network.
 Chynna wrote memoir called, "Not Just Spirited: One Mom's Sensational Journey With Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD)," which describes her journey from knowing something was wrong with her miracle girl to finding the right help for her.
She has also signed on with Sunrise River Press to write a book about the Sensory Diet from a parent’s perspective. This wonderful resource will guide parents who’ve just received an SPD diagnosis for their child to the right treatment options so they can create their own, best-suited sensory diet.
Hopefully we'll see more of her work on bookshelves soon!
"Telling me I can't do something just makes me work harder to succeed."
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