Wendy Cohan

Wendy L. Cohan writes character-driven women’s fiction from her home in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her work has appeared in Pittsburgh Magazine, Verge Magazine, Cricket, The Manifest-Station, and Be Their Voice: An Anthology for Rescue. Her first novel, The Renaissance Sisters (Lucid House Publishing), debuted May 23, 2023. The sequel, Love Child, was released on Oct 3. 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.