Vicky DeCoster has written humorous essays and articles for Atlanta Singles, Metro Parents, Omaha Magazine, Her magazine, Omaha World-Herald, Single Life, iParentingstories.com and AbsoluteWrite.com. Her essay, “How to Just Say No to a Date” was featured on a morning radio show, and won the award “Best Creative Story” from Omaha Magazine. She has written humor columns for Her magazine and Still Moments magazine, based in Nova Scotia. Vicky is the winner of the "Boomer Women Speak" July/August 2005 essay contest. In addition, in May 2005, Vicky won second place in the national humor writing contest "Make Me Laugh," won Finalist, Semi-Finalist, and Honorable Mention awards in HumorPress.com's 2010, 2009, 2008, 2006 and 2005 humor writing contests, and in September 2009, her essay "Bad Manners" was one of three winners on the Red Room writer's web site.

Vicky’s inspirational essays have been published in the Don’t Sweat Stories with a foreword by Richard Carlson, Ph.D. (author of Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff), the book Real Stories of Spirit Communication by Angela Hoy (Booklocker-2004), the book FamilyFun - My Great Idea (Disney Editions), and Christian Single magazine. DeCoster is a featured writer in the book Chicken Soup for the Soul in Menopause (August 2007), Burning the Midnight Oil: How We Survive as Writing Parents by Dawn Colclasure (2004), Book Marketing from A-Z by Francine Silverman and Forget the Chicken Soup, Where's the Chocolate? (2010). She is also a contributor to Francine Silverman's book, Talk Radio for Authors (Infinity).

An avid runner and hiker, she lives in Nebraska with her husband and two children.

vdecoster@wackywomanhood.com