Wendy Walker is a former commercial litigator who has been a stay-at-home mom for the past eleven years. She began writing as a hobby several years ago and wrote her first novel, Four Wives, in the back of her minivan. She recently edited Chicken Soup for the Soul – Power Moms, 101 Stories Celebrating the Power of Choice for Stay at Home and Work from Home Moms, which was released in March, 2009. Her second novel will be published by St. Martin’s Press in the fall of 2009.

 

As an attorney, she worked in private practice both in New York and Connecticut, and served as a pro bono lawyer at the ACLU. While attending Law School at Georgetown University, where she graduated magna cum laude, she spent a summer in the Special Prosecutions Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York.

 

Wendy obtained her undergraduate degree from Brown University with a double major in economics and political science. Her junior year was spent at the London School of Economics. Upon graduating magna cum laude, she worked as a financial analyst in the Mergers and Acquisitions department of Goldman, Sachs & Co. in New York.

 

As a young girl, Wendy trained for competitive figure skating at facilities in Colorado and New York. She now serves on the board of Figure Skating in Harlem, an organization committed to the development of underprivileged girls which she helped found in 1997. She lives in suburban Connecticut and is busy raising her three sons and writing her third novel.