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Beckah Selnick’s first children’s book, God’s Holy Darkness (Beaming Books, 2022), deconstructs anti-Blackness in Christian theology by celebrating instances in the story of God's people when darkness, blackness, and night are beautiful, good, and holy. God's Holy Darkness is a Junior Library Guild Selection. Junior Library Guild is a curated subscription service for libraries featuring books recommended by expert librarians for building an excellent collection. God’s Holy Darkness is a recipient of an Independent Publisher Book Award Silver Medal for Children’s Books (All Ages).
Beckah is the host and creator of the PK/PK Podcast. You can find her published writing online at Harness Magazine, Living Lutheran, and Café Magazine.
In 2021, she completed a graduate certificate in Digital Storytelling from Harvard University (HES). Beckah is a graduate of the writing programs at the Second City Chicago Training Center, the iO Chicago Training center and the Annoyance Theatre in Chicago. Beckah has written pieces for the sketch revues, Literally Ironic (Second City TrainingCenter) and Demangoes (iO Chicago Training Center). She has staged a reading of her original sitcom pilot, Blessed Are We (iO Chicago Training Center). She studied religion and education at John Carroll University.
Her curiosity with the world and what it believes has seen Beckah serving a homelessness initiative and giving tower tours at an ancient abbey in the United Kingdom, teaching English and pressing cabbage in a rural village in the Slovak Republic, and serving coffee at Starbucks in Seattle.
Beckah is mom to Jonah and Declan and wife to Michael, living in
Portland, Oregon.
Work and Awards
PK/PK Podcast
When you grow up with both of your parents as clergy, you learn that church doesn’t just happen on Sundays. Your home is the church. But people experience church in different ways- good, best-intentioned, bad, even very bad. Daughter of an Episcopal priest and a Lutheran pastor, host Beckah Selnick is breaking down what it means to encounter and be held accountable to other people’s very strong and very specific ideas about God, organized religion, faith, and the like. The church shows up in the world, for better or worse, and so do her kids. Subscribe to PK/PK Podcast wherever you listen to podcasts. Find more here.
Scripted
Shared Life of Carl (Original Pilot)
Austin Film Festival Second Rounder (2021)
Revival (Fictional Podcast)
Austin Film Festival Second Rounder (2021)
Bylines
Taylor Swift and Mitered Corners
Harness Magazine; May 2020; Read more here.
What Lutherans Mean When We Talk About Daily Bread
Living Lutheran; Jun. 2017; Read more here.
