Nikki Arana is an award-winning author of women’s fiction, suspense, essays, poetry, and magazine articles whose work has been published in the United States and Canada.

Nikki has won several national awards, including:

- The Evangelical Christian Publisher’s Award for Fiction - The Next Target

- The American Christian Fiction Writers Book of the Year for Women's Fiction   (The Carol Award) – Twice

- The Beacon Award for Excellence in Romance

- The Write Touch Award

- Her novel The Winds of Sonoma was named One of the Top 20 Books of the   Year by Christianbook.com

- The Excellence in Media Silver Angel Award,

- Nikki was also honored by her home state of Idaho with the Jessie Cameron   Alison Writer of the Year Award and the Idaho State Writer of the Year Award

 

Public Speaking

 

Nikki is an experienced speaker and has presented numerous, highly successful workshops on the craft of writing. She has been a keynote speaker, a featured speaker and presented workshops in the following venues:

 

RWA National Conference

Willamette Writers Conference

Idaho Writer’s League State Conference

Inland Empire Chapter of Romance Writers of America Retreat

Real Life Ministries Book Club

Benewah County Writers Conference

 

About Nikki

All of her books deal with social, political, and spiritual issues that Christian's face today. The Winds of Sonoma, touched on immigration. In the Shade of the Jacaranda, dealt with abortion. The Fragrance of Roses, dealt with the need to have more minorities donating to bone marrow registries. As I Have Loved You, is about a single mom whose college age son gets mixed up with the wrong girl. The situation is complicated because the son has Attention Deficit Disorder. The Next Target, is about the need for Christians to minister to Muslims who are here in the United States. That’s a thought provoking subject. She writes about these issues to raise public awareness.

She is a member of the American Christian Fiction Writers, and Romance Writers of America.  Nikki lives with her husband of fifty years in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. They have two grown sons and 3 grandchildren! She would love to hear from you.