New York Times bestseller Wendy Corsi Staub is the award-winning author of more than seventy published novels. Under her own name, Wendy achieved New York Times bestselling status with her single title psychological suspense novels. Those novels and the women's fiction she writes under the pseudonym Wendy Markham have also frequently appeared on the USA Today, Barnes and Noble Top Ten, and Bookscan bestseller lists.

In 2008, Wendy released five new novels, a reissue, and a trade paperback edition of a 2007 hardcover. She will publish three additional new novels and three mass market reissues in 2009.

Notable among these are her latest adult thrillers--DYING BREATH (Zebra, May 2008) and its sequel DEAD BEFORE DARK (Zebra, May 2009). Her young adult paranormal series LILY DALE, which has been optioned for television by a major production company, will be relaunched by Walker Books for Young Readers in mass market in 2009: the first two titles, AWAKENING and BELIEVING, will hit the shelves again in June, followed by CONNECTING and the long-awaited fourth title, DISCOVERING.

Wendy continues to write romance and chick lit as "Wendy Markham," whose latest titles include THE BEST GIFT, a December 2009 sequel to her acclaimed 2006 Christmas Time Travel romance, IF ONLY IN MY DREAMS (both from Signet); as well as another installment in her bestselling chick lit series, SLIGHTLY SUBURBAN (Red Dress Ink, July 2008—a nominee for an RT Booklovers Critics Choice Award); and the light paranormal romance THAT'S AMORE (Grand Central Publishing, August 2008), the latest sequel in the Chickalini Family series.

Wendy recently won the 2008 RT Award for Career Achievement in Suspense and the 2007 RWA-NYC Golden Apple Award for Lifetime Achievement. A proud recipient of the RWA Rita award, she has also twice been awarded the Westchester Library Association’s Washington Irving Prize for Fiction and was honored as one of WLA’s Millennial Authors in 2000. Her Wendy Markham novel SLIGHTLY SINGLE was named one of Waldenbooks' 100 Best Fiction titles of 2002. Her novels THE LAST TO KNOW and ASK ME AGAIN were nominated for RT Reviewers Choice awards, and five of her novels, DON'T SCREAM; THE LAST TO KNOW; MIKE, MIKE AND ME; HELLO, IT'S ME; and BRIDE NEEDS GROOM, were awarded a month's top pick review by the RTBOOKclub magazine.

Her work has been translated into more than a dozen languages worldwide and a number of her titles have been selected as features for Mystery Guild, Literary Guild, Doubleday Book Club, Large Print Book Club, and Rhapsody Book Club.

Wendy grew up in a large, close-knit family in rural southwestern New York State and decided she wanted to become an author while in third grade. She worked in two independent bookstores during college, then moved alone to New York City at 21 to pursue her dream. After stints as a book editor for a Manhattan publishing house and an account coordinator for a major advertising agency, she sold her first novel, the supernatural young adult thriller SUMMER LIGHTNING. Early in her writing career, she published in various genres including suspense, horror, historical and contemporary romance, television and movie tie-in, and biography. She also co-authored a mystery series with former New York City mayor Ed Koch and has ghost-written for a number of bestselling authors and celebrities.

Wendy now lives in the New York City suburbs with her husband of seventeen years and their two children. A 1986 graduate of the State University of New York at Fredonia, she proudly delivered the keynote commencement address at her alma mater in May 2008.