ABOUT
Vila Gingerich grew up in Mennonite communities across the Midwest. She spent seven years doing volunteer work in Romania and now lives on fifty acres in Missouri with her husband, cats, and an overgrown veggie garden.
She was a winner of the 2014 Highlights for Children fiction contest and her work has been published in Highlights for Children, Cricket, and Purpose magazines. She is the author of two middle-grade books: Growing Toward the Sun and Full Moon, Half a Heart. She is also the author of a memoir anthology titled White Horse to Bucharest: Lessons Romania Taught Us.
Vila teaches sixth through eighth grades in a private Mennonite school. She tells her students that everyone has a special talent, good books take you places, and sometimes it’s okay to add on your fingers.
She was a winner of the 2014 Highlights for Children fiction contest and her work has been published in Highlights for Children, Cricket, and Purpose magazines. She is the author of two middle-grade books: Growing Toward the Sun and Full Moon, Half a Heart. She is also the author of a memoir anthology titled White Horse to Bucharest: Lessons Romania Taught Us.
Vila teaches sixth through eighth grades in a private Mennonite school. She tells her students that everyone has a special talent, good books take you places, and sometimes it’s okay to add on your fingers.
Me without books was like Thanksgiving without pumpkin pie. Like Sunday shoes without bows or Kansas without sunflowers.
—excerpt from Growing Toward the Sun
—excerpt from Growing Toward the Sun
Read My Work Online
"Stork Time" -middle-grade story published in Cricket Magazine
"Easter with Baba Olena" -middle grade story published in Highlights for Children
"Taking Flight" -essay on Novel Matters blog
"As in Olden Days" -micro story for Postcard Shorts
"Shadow Monsters" -middle grade story on Kids Book Review
"Easter with Baba Olena" -middle grade story published in Highlights for Children
"Taking Flight" -essay on Novel Matters blog
"As in Olden Days" -micro story for Postcard Shorts
"Shadow Monsters" -middle grade story on Kids Book Review