Margaret Feinberg

Margaret Feinberg is an author and public speaker based in Salt Lake City, Utah. She creates books, Bible studies, and video curriculum aimed at people of faith.

Biography Feinberg's father was a Jewish convert to Christianity. She spent the first eight years of her life living in Cocoa Beach, Florida, before moving to Maggie Valley, North Carolina. Her family later moved to Steamboat Springs, Colorado where she spent the rest of her childhood and adolescence. Feinberg holds a B.A. in religion from Wake Forest University. She describes how she originally desired to attend Georgetown University. She only applied to small number of schools praying that she would only be accepted by the school that God desired for her to attend. She attributes her getting accepted at Wake Forest to God's "providence and wisdom". A regular speaker at churches and conferences such as Catalyst, Thrive, and Extraordinary Women, Margaret Feinberg has received numerous accolades. In 2005 she was named one of the '30 Voices' who will help lead the church in the next decade by Charisma magazine. In 2008 she was listed as one of the '40 Under 40' who will shape Christian publishing by Christian Retailing. In 2012 she was named as one of the 50 women shaping the church and culture by Christianity Today. She has written more than fifty books and Bible studies including the critically acclaimed The Organic God (Zondervan), The Sacred Echo (Zondervan), Scouting the Divine (Zondervan), Wonderstruck (Worthy Publishing), Fight Back With Joy, Taste and See, and their corresponding DVD Bible studies. Margaret also hosts a podcast called The Joycast where she talks about what it looks like to be people of joy.

Feinberg and her books have been covered by media including: CNN, the Associated Press, Los Angeles Times, The Dallas Morning News, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Denver Rocky Mountain News, Newsday, Houston Chronicle, Beliefnet.com, Salon.com, USAToday.com, MSNBC.com,Forbes.com, and many others. Feinberg currently lives in Utah, with her husband, Leif, and their dog, Zoom.