Angela Correll

Angela Correll is an American author, preservationist, and co-founder of Wilderness Road Hospitality.

Education

Angela has a bachelor's degree in communication from Georgetown College in Georgetown, Kentucky, and a master's degree in library and information science from the University of Kentucky.

Personal life

Angela lives on a farm in Central Kentucky with her entrepreneur husband, Jess.^[1]

Career

Angela is the author of the "May Hollow Trilogy," which includes books, Grounded, Guarded, and Granted.^[2]

All three books were adapted into plays for Danville, Kentucky's Pioneer Playhouse.^[3]

As co-founder along with her husband, Jess, of Wilderness Road Hospitality, have worked to revitalize Kentucky's second oldest city, Stanford, by bringing hospitality businesses to Main Street, a portion of the old Wilderness Road.^[4] Wilderness Road Hospitality includes Kentucky Soaps & Such ^[5] a goat milk soap factory and retail shop in Stanford, The Inn at Wilderness Road,^[6] and the Bluebird, a farm-to-table restaurant in partnership with Executive Chef William Hawkins.^[7]

Awards

Grounded, became an Amazon bestseller in 2014 in various categories of inspirational fiction. Groundedthe audiobook, was a finalist for the Audie Award in Inspirational Fiction for 2015,^[8] and was nominated for Best Voiceover by the Society For Voice Arts and Sciences in the category of Audiobook Narration – Inspirational/Faith-Based Fiction.^[9]

Granted, was awarded the silver medal in Religious Fiction in the 2019 Independent Publisher Book Awards.^[10]

Preservation Kentucky, Bruckheimer Award for Historic Preservation in a Rural Community, 2013.^[11]

Boyle Landmark Trust Preservation Award, 2014

Bluegrass Trust for Historic Preservation, Barbara Hulette Award, 2014 ^[12]