Wendy A. Skinner

Website: www.wendyaskinner.com

• Infinity and Zebra Stripes: Life with Gifted Children (National Best Books Award Finalist, Arizona Book Award Winner, Mom’s Choice Award Winner)
• Advocating Up the Ladder

Wendy Skinner lives in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, with her husband and two gifted children. She earned her B.A. in Elementary Education from the University of Northern Colorado. As the quintessential career substitute teacher, Wendy has taught for more than a decade in bilingual, Spanish immersion, special education, and regular classrooms in every grade and nearly every subject. She also teaches writing part-time in a nontraditional fifth/sixth-grade mixed classroom, as well as secondary and adult English as a second language. She has published a book and several articles in gifted journals, and she is member of the world-renowned Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis. 

When she is not teaching or advocating on behalf of gifted children and their families, Skinner spends her time with her family, writing, and selling cut flowers at a farmers’ market during the summer.