Join us in the Resource Center with Eau Claire Author & Creative Writer STEPHANIE NESJA as she debuts her new book: "Unfaltering Flame". About the Book: "Unfaltering Flame" represents Stephanie Nesja’s exploration of faith from childhood into adulthood. Along the way, she encounters various forms of grief, including losing a close friend after high school and an aunt in her thirties. Additionally, Stephanie struggles with finding her identity and where she fits in, a prospect made even more difficult following her father’s divorce after 25 years of marriage. Presented as a linked essay collection, each of the included four essays focus on the major themes of faith, grief, and places of importance. These themes ultimately form a collaborative bond by the end of Stephanie's stories, linking together the literal and metaphorical moving throughout each physical location in relation to her journey of grieving multiple hardships throughout her life. Places explored include a small community in Honduras, as well as a beloved wine bar once owned by her aunt, and her father’s house in Stephanie's hometown of Eau Claire, Wisconsin. As she struggles to understand her evolving identity, Stephanie recognizes the role of her spiritual growth from childhood into adulthood and how it has shaped the woman she has become as a daughter of Christ. About the Author: Stephanie Nesja is the author of the essay collection, Unfaltering Flame. She writes simply to share God’s love with others and as an answer to His calling. She grew up with a forest full of evergreens as the backdrop of her childhood home in Wisconsin. She graduated from UW-Eau Claire with her MA in writing at the age of 35 after realizing her calling from God was always to be a writer. She occasionally write articles for Volume One and Chippewa Valley Writers Guild, both based out of Wisconsin, as well as book reviews for Colorado Review. She currently resides in Wisconsin with her husband and their two dogs, Murphy and Eleanor Rigby. Unfaltering Flame is her first book.