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 the single title psychological suspense novels she writes for Zebra Books. 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.

Currently under contract with four major publishers writing in four different genres, Wendy released five new novels and three reissues in 2007, and will release five additional new novels and a reissue in 2008.

Notable among these are her latest thriller, DYING BREATH (Zebra, May 2008) and the 2007 New York Times bestsellers DON'T SCREAM (Zebra, May 2007) and MOST LIKELY TO DIE (Zebra, February 2007), a suspense novel she co-wrote with fellow New York Times authors Lisa Jackson and Beverly Barton. LILY DALE: AWAKENING (Walker, September 2007) was the launch book in her new young adult paranormal suspense series, and will be followed by at least three more titles through early 2009. The series has been optioned for television.

Wendy continues to write romance and chick lit as "Wendy Markham," whose latest titles include the Christmas Time Travel romance, IF ONLY IN MY DREAMS (reissued by Signet, December 2007); the new installment in her bestselling chick lit series, SLIGHTLY SUBURBAN (Red Dress Ink, July 2008); and the light paranormal romance THAT'S AMORE (Grand Central Publishing, July 2008), the latest installment in her 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 two RWA Rita awards, 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 selected one of Waldenbooks' 100 Best Fiction titles of 2002. Her novels THE LAST TO KNOW and ASK ME AGAIN were nominated for Romantic Times 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. A graduate of the State University of New York at Fredonia, 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.