SONGWRITER, AUTHOR, SPEAKER

Singer/songwriter and author Staci Frenes has spent most of her life singing and speaking in churches, conferences, women’s retreats and other faith-based venues. This UC-Berkeley graduate, mom, and former English teacher turned her lifelong love of words and music into a full-time vocation, forming her own music publishing company and record label from which she launched a successful independent career. She’s released ten albums of original music and landed multiple film and television placements, including "America’s Next Top Model", "The Biggest Loser," and "Nashville." Her most recent album, Light of Love, is a collection of original and classic Christmas songs.

Staci added author and speaker to her resume with her first book, Flourish, about how to cultivate a life in which our unique gifts find their full expression. Her most recent book, Love Makes Room, reflects a season of deep, profound changes in her faith and family life as she writes about coming to understand and accept her daughter’s LGBTQ+ orientation within the context of her deeply-rooted Christian faith.

Articulate, authentic, and hopeful, Staci writes songs and stories about the truths that resonate in every aspect of life, and she is confident that the process can be as beautiful as the finish.

“Love makes room”

When Staci Frenes learned her teenage daughter was gay, she found her dreams for the future—along with her lifelong faith—collapsing around her. Coming to terms with a new reality was a challenge, and an invitation, to make room for many things along the way: the inevitability of uncertainty, hope in the midst of loss, awkward and tough conversations, an expanding faith, and a greater understanding of how people are more the same than different.

In Love Makes Room, Frenes helps readers see that a reimagined future may look different than our old hoped-for pictures of ourselves and our families, but it can also be wider, deeper, and more fulfilling than we ever dreamed.