About

E. J. Knight is a disabled writer with a strong Christian background. She has a BA in Creative Writing from Houghton University, and her senior thesis was the creation of an anthology of horror and weird literature short stories. She was awarded first place for the Faculty Excellence Award at her school in 2014 for an essay on Elie Wiesel’s Night, which was published for a short time by Houghton. She also had a blog for about a year and a half to two years, which she created during the pandemic, called the Word By Word Blog. That blog was focused on the topics of mental wellness and writing- and that a person can have both together. Unfortunately, that site was put on hiatus while she took time away to work more on her mental and physical health, and then later was taken ofline entirely.

She has been a Christian since she was about four years old and was raised in the Church. She was baptized at nine and was beginning to consider theology from an analytical view by middle school. In high school, she would sometimes give spontaneous mini-sermons to her friends, usually unsolicited. She experienced hurts from Christians around her over the course of her adolescence, but kept pushing forward. She chose Houghton University because it’s a Christian school. By the time she graduated, however, she had received many more hurts from Christians and the Church, and stopped attending church all together, except for holidays with her parents. She never stopped believing in God, but she did stop trusting most Christians and the Church as a whole. God has since helped her to find her way back, though, and she’s now a member of leadership at the church she and her parents attend. Those past experiences have given her a passion for creating a welcoming and accessible church environment, and she’s helping to raise disability awareness within her church, along with assessing and helping to correct how they handle situations where church members hurt one another.​