A mermaid at heart, Lorelei Kay is the author of the multi award-winning memoir From Mormon to Mermaid - One Woman's Voyage from Oppression to Freedom. She also writes poetry that’s been published in magazines, anthologies, and online. She loves beaches, waterfalls, Jacuzzis, and bubble baths. In fact, she finds soaking in bubbles particularly conducive to writing! Unsurprisingly, her namesake is the Lorelei—the German mermaid who perches on the River Rhine—who her father learned of when he served in Italy as a soldier in WWII. Lorelei grew up in Salt Lake City and became an official member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints—known as the Mormon Church—on her eighth birthday when her father baptized her in a font in the Temple Square Tabernacle. Her mother told her stories of her pioneer ancestors who crossed the plains to find religious freedom. She performed the Mormon ritual of being baptized for the dead in the Salt Lake temple. She took organ lessons in the basement of the Tabernacle and even had the opportunity to play the world-famous Tabernacle Organ. Lorelei attended Brigham Young University and was sealed to her husband for time and all eternity in the Los Angeles temple. Her transformation began when her bishop called her to teach Gospel Doctrine, the scripture class for adults that covered the Bible, Book of Mormon, and “Doctrine & Covenants.” Or in other words, Church History. Like anything else her bishop asked her to do, she put her whole heart and soul into it. As she began to realize the depth of problems in Mormon doctrine and history, her spirituality changed from a placid sea into a raging torrent. And that is when—all halibut broke loose. Lorelei's book From Mormon to Mermaid just won Winning Writers North Street Book Prizes FIRST PRIZE! Click here: https://winningwriters.com/past-winning-entries/from-mormon-to-mermaid Website: https://LoreleiKay.com