gwendolyn bounds

ABOUT GWENDOLYN BOUNDS

  Gwendolyn (Wendy) Bounds writes about the quirks and challenges of small business and entrepreneurship in the Enterprise column for The Wall Street Journal. She also pens a column on home improvement called About the House for the paper's Weekend sections. Over the last decade at the Journal, Bounds has chronicled the rise and fall of companies in many industries including fashion, travel, retail, marketing and media.

Bounds is a regular contributor to ABC's "Good Morning America." As WSJ's Small Business editor, Bounds appears weekly on CNBC's "Morning Call" and recently has been a guest on MSNBC's "Your Business," Fox News' "Fox & Friends" and CNN.

  In addition to The Wall Street Journal, Bounds has written for several national magazines, as well as The Miami Herald, The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.) and the Herald-Sun (Durham, N.C.) She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a native of North Carolina.

  Bounds' second non-fiction book, "Little Chapel on the River," was published June 28, 2005. The book chronicles her experiences at an old Irish pub in New York's historic Hudson River Valley.

  Her first-person essay "Amid the Ashes, Baby Carriages, Shoes, Family Photos," which she wrote with fellow WSJ reporter Kathryn Kranhold, won the 2002 Front Page Award for September 11th commentary from the Newswoman’s Club of New York.

  In 1998, Bounds co-authored the book: "Birds on the Couch: The Bird Shrink's Guide to Keeping Polly from Going Crackers and You Out of the Cuckoo's Nest" with Maryland bird psychologist, Ruth Hanessian.

  She now lives in the Hudson River Valley.