Meet Our Authors
The women of Pneuma Press form a sisterhood of faith, united by a shared calling to make Christ known through the written word. Each one writes from a place of devotion, drawing from real life, real faith, and the transforming power of Scripture. Together, they reflect the beauty of the Body—many voices, one Spirit, all pointing to the same hope. Through their words, readers are invited to slow down, rest in truth, and encounter God in the quiet margins of life.
Jane Hanna Stoudt
Jane Hanna Stoudt is a Christian author, minister, and biblical counselor devoted to helping women encounter God through Scripture, stillness, and beauty. She is the founder of Margins Ministries and Pneuma Press, a faith-based publishing house dedicated to amplifying the voices of women who write to glorify God. As Neurodivergence Minister for Formed Through Fire Ministry she serves the neurodivergent community with grace and love.
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Jane has written and published several devotional and theological works, including Haggai: Rebuilding the Ruins, Beyond the Daniel Diet, Nourished by Grace, Called to Be His Help Meet, Forgive, and Sacred Selah. Her upcoming titles include The Margins Method: A Sacredly Simple Way to Study the Bible, Ephesians: Identity & Design, and The Grace Response: Overcoming the Snare of Offense.
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With a background in biblical counseling, women’s ministry, and publishing, Jane has served as Editor-in-Chief for several Christian magazines and has worked as a freelance editor and book designer for women authors across a range of faith-based projects. Her creative and editorial expertise bring together theology, artistry, and clear communication to help authors present their message with both excellence and grace.
Jane teaches believers how to study the Word with both heart and mind, combining deep theology with gentle guidance. Through Pneuma Press and Margins Ministries, her mission is to create Christ-centered resources that make Scripture accessible, beautiful, and transformative for women everywhere.
Cathryn Johnson Judkins
Cathryn Judkins is an American author and teacher of Christian studies whose life and writing reflect a deep, lived faith. Though she grew up in the church and accepted Christ as a young child, it was in the early 2000s that she experienced a personal encounter with God that reshaped her purpose and calling.
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Cathryn writes to encourage and empower women walking through seasons of brokenness, helping them rediscover strength and identity in Christ. Her books flow from her own journey of healing and spiritual growth, offering both biblical insight and heartfelt honesty.
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She and her husband make their home just outside Carson City, Nevada, where she leads a local MomCo group—mentoring and supporting young mothers as they navigate the joys and challenges of raising children. Her two daughters and two granddaughters live in California, and she treasures her role as both mother and grandmother.
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Cathryn’s current projects include Worship-Filled Prayer, a study of joyful communion with God through prayer, and Living in the Broken, which reveals how God transforms fractured stories into beautiful testimonies of grace. Her previous works include The Journey of a Living Relationship, Colossians: Confronting Christ, Hillside Wisdom: Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, Becoming One: One with God, One with Your Husband, and The Woman in the Mirror. Each book reflects her heartbeat for women to encounter the living God—and to find that even in the breaking, He is making something beautiful.
Miranda Embry knows what it means to walk through fire—and come out refined, not ruined. As the founder and director of Formed Through Fire Ministry, an international women’s ministry dedicated to Empowering Women’s Lives Through Biblical Truth and Spiritual Transformation—mind, body, and soul,
Miranda leads with both passion and transparency. Her message is simple but powerful: God can use even the hardest seasons to shape something holy. A speaker, Bible teacher, and Christian discipleship author,
Miranda writes from a place of honesty, healing, and hard-won faith. Her words invite readers to dig deep, face the real, and find God’s restoration in the middle of their own refining process. With three published books and a fourth on the way, Miranda continues to pour her heart into helping others grow deeper roots in Scripture, stronger faith in adversity, and greater confidence in who they are in Christ. Through her writing and teaching, she reminds every woman that the same fire meant to break you can be the very thing that builds you.
Miranda Embry
Jamie Carey is a teacher, writer, and musician with a passion for helping women find faith and purpose through life’s refining fires. As part of Formed Through Fire Ministries and an active member of Lawton Street Baptist Church, Jamie teaches, writes, and leads others to grow in spiritual maturity and confidence in Christ. Living with LAM, a rare lung disease, has deepened her understanding of God’s sustaining grace and shaped her message of hope, resilience, and transformation. Through her music, Bible studies, and devotionals, she reminds others that even in hardship, God is faithfully forming something beautiful.
Jamie Carey
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