Lindsay Hardin Freeman is a Minnesota-based Episcopal priest, author, and mother. She is the author and/or editor of eight books, including The Scarlet Cord: Conversation with God's Chosen Women and The Spy on Noah's Ark and Other Bible Stories from the Inside Out. A popular speaker and retreat leader, she enjoys finding humor and grace in the Bible, and sharing it fully--and often irreverently. Her work takes her around the country, speaking to groups large and small about the accomplishments and struggles of Bible women as models for contemporary spirituality.

The longtime editor of Vestry Papers (2001 - 2010), she has won more than thirty awards for journalistic excellence. She serves as a mentor for women in the ordination process and as adjunct clergy for St. David's, Minnetonka. She is married to Leonard Freeman (a poet, priest, and teacher) and has two sons and three stepchildren. Bible Women: All Their Words and Why They Matter is the culmination of four years of work with a research team to explore the words of every woman who spoke in the Bible and what they have to say for us today.