Neylan McBaine is a writer who specializes in religion and creative nonfiction. Her writings draw from her experience growing up as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon) in New York City and then attending Yale University. She currently lives with her husband and three young daughters.
Neylan has been published in Newsweek, Meridian Magazine, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Segullah, BustedHalo.com, the Washington Post's On Faith religion blog, among others. She is the Personal Voices editor of Dialogue and is a regular contributor to Patheos.com, the religion portal. Most recently, Neylan's article "The Future of Mormon Motherhood" was featured alongside Elder Cook, sociology professor Armand Mauss and many other distinguished names in Patheos's Future of Mormonism series, and her article was circulated across the Washington Post's site and referenced in the Salt Lake Tribune.
Neylan is also the author of a collection of personal essays, How To Be A Twenty-First Century Pioneer Woman (2008) (available on Amazon.com), and she blogs at www.neylanmcbaine.com.
In January 2010, Neylan launched the Mormon Women Project, a digital library of interviews with LDS women from around the world, in an effort to emphasize the many ways that modern faithful women choose the right. Because of the strong examples of Mormon women she grew up with, including her own mother who was a professional opera singer, and because of her personal connection with many women who struggle to find their place within LDS culture, Neylan felt it was important to challenge the cultural stereotype with portraits of all kinds of righteous women. The site, which posts one interview a week with the help of over a dozen volunteers, has been visited almost 100,000 times since January and was recently featured in the Salt Lake Tribune.
Most recently, Neylan was invited to bring the tone of the Mormon Women Project to the Church's new media campaign featured on Mormon.org, so she is now the only female creative director at Bonneville Communications, and she is specifically responsible for producing the portraits of women included in the Mormon.org public outreach campaign.
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