About 

Al Carraway is a convert to the Church of Jesus Christ, multi-award-winning international speaker for more than 13 years inspiring others of her conversion and faith through difficult times.

She is a multi-award winning and #1 best-selling author to more than eight published titles, "Finding Yourself in the New Testament," "Wildly Optimistic," "More Than the Tattooed Mormon," "My Dear Little One," "Cheers to Eternity!" "Look Unto Him," and more!

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Carraway has a deep love for guiding church history tours twice a year, as well as seminars at sea.

Her passion is to tell everyone that happiness exists, and it comes from Jesus. That He's real and He is tangible. And how to find and love Him in the hard, in the unwanted, and the unexpected. Because through it all, with Him, we have every reason to be wildly optimistic. 

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Originally from New York, she is now living with her husband, Benjamin, and her three kids, in Charleston, South Carolina.

2023 — Readers Favorite Gold Medal Winner
2023 — Illumination Book Award Bronze Medal Winner

2023 — LDSPMA Praiseworthy Gold Medal for Religious Topic
2022 —Amazon Best-selling overall Book #6 out of over 33million title

2022 — Amazon #1 in 7 categories

2016 — Woman + Biz Award.
2014 — Donald C. Sloan Speech Award.

For more, follow Carraway on instagram: @alcarraway