For over 15 years Susan Maycinik Nikaido served as editor and senior editor of the award-winning Discipleship Journal. A prolific freelance writer, she has published articles in Today’s Christian Woman, Decision, Leadership, Campus Life, New Man, and Christian History, among others. She is also the author of two Bible study guides. She served on the board of the Evangelical Press Association and drafted that organization’s guidelines for working with freelance writers. Susan holds a B.A. in journalism from Indiana University and an M.A. in communications from Wheaton College Graduate School. She taught writing and editing seminars in the United States and internationally, and has written manuals on magazine article writing and magazine editing for Magazine Training International.