Emily Stimpson Chapman is a Catholic wife, mother, and bestselling author. Her books include Letters to Myself from the End of World (Emmaus Road 2021), Hope to Die: The Christian Meaning of Death and the Resurrection of the Body, co-authored with Scott Hahn (Emmaus Road: 2020), The Catholic Table: Finding Joy Where Food and Faith Meet(Emmaus Road, 2016), The American Catholic Almanac (Random House: 2014), These Beautiful Bones: An Everyday Theology of the Body (Emmaus Road, 2013), and The Catholic Girl’s Survival Guide for the Single Years (Emmaus Road, 2012). Emily is also the editor and co-author of the Formed in Christ series of high school textbooks, jointly published by Tan Books, the author of the Courageous! series of Bible studies for teens, and six studies for the women’s ministry Endow. Her newest project is a series of Catholic children’s books, co-authored with Scott Hahn. The first in the series, Mary, Mother of All will be published in late Fall 2022.
Over the years, her writing has regularly appeared in Our Sunday Visitor, the National Catholic Register, and Franciscan Way Magazine, as well as First Things, Touchstone, Faith and Family, Lay Witness, Catholic Digest, and elsewhere. It has been honored by both the Catholic Press Association and the Associated Church Press, and was included in Loyola’s Best Catholic Writing series.
Emily lives with her husband, Christopher, and their three toddlers, in a rambling 1890 Victorian money pit, in Pittsburgh, PA. You can read more on Instagram @emilystimpsonchapman.