About Darla
Darla Isackson has loved writing and speaking, waterfalls and watermelon since she was a child. She wrote her first “book” when she was in the third grade and in her teens became famous for her special event poems. She thinks that her intense commitment to the world of words comes from a belief that faith is sharable and that faith-filled words can lift and build.
Darla graduated from Utah State University and served a mission to Southern California. Later, while home raising her five sons, she published greeting card verses, articles for church and family magazines, the book To Parents With Love, and the newspaper column Parent Patter. Later she co-founded Latter-day Woman magazine, where she was Managing Editor for two years and a consistent contributor of articles and poetry. (In those days her name was Darla Hanks.)
Darla has been on the Continuing Education speaker's circuit for BYU, and she produced six inspirational talks with Covenant Communications.
In 1988 she pioneered the book division for Covenant Communications and was their Managing Editor for four years. She later served as Managing Editor for Aspen Books. In 1996, Aspen published a mother's day booklet called To Be a Mother, the Agonies and the Ecstacies which Darla and Emma Lou Thayne teamed up to write.
Darla has edited well over two hundred uplifting books in her interesting career--shepherding them successfully from manuscript to bookstore shelves. She has presented at writer’s workshops in three states.
Since 1998 she has free-lanced at home, editing and ghost-writing many books and caring for her elderly mother until she passed away. She has written a bi-monthly column for Meridian Magazine online since 2002. Her book Trust God No Matter What! Was released by Meridian Publishing in early 2009.
Darla added a new category to her list of favorite things ten years ago—grandchildren! She now has four grandsons and six granddaughters who live nearby and bring her great joy. She treasures the peacefulness of working from home, having time to write, and be more available to those she loves. She lives in West Jordan, Utah, with her husband Doug, with whom she served a part-time service mission in the Salt Lake Inner City project in 2007 and 2008. She enjoys a yard that produces hundreds of roses from June to October and being close to so many beautiful canyons.