Wendy Cohan

Wendy L. Cohan writes character-driven women’s fiction, short stories, and narrative essays. Her work has appeared in Pittsburgh Magazine, Verge Magazine, Cricket, The Manifest-Station, and Be Their Voice: An Anthology for Rescue. Her debut novel, The Renaissance Sisters (Lucid House Publishing), will be released on May 23, 2023. Wendy lives and writes in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where much of her fiction is set. When not writing, she enjoys spending time with her two adult sons and their partners, and hiking in the nearby mountains with her rescue dogs, Birdie and Lola.

Prior to writing full time, Ms. Cohan was a registered nurse for two decades and is the author of The Better Bladder Book, 2010, Hunter House Publishing, and What Nurses Know...Headaches, 2012, Demos Publishing. She also holds a B.A. in Environmental Conservation from the University of Colorado—where she was a botanical field assistant at the University’s Mountain Research Station. She’s a big fan of wildflowers, and bear-grass. Wendy caught the writing bug while living for several years in Missoula, Montana, where she studied creative writing with the Beargrass Writer’s Workshop.