Back to Life

Wendy Coakley-Thompson has written articles and fiction for music and fashion/lifestyle magazines in New Jersey, her adopted home state, and in Nassau, Bahamas, where she was raised. She graduated from Syracuse University with a Ph.D. in Education. Her work as a commentator for Metro Connection on WAMU, a Washington, D.C. National Public Radio affiliate, earned a 2003 Associated Press/Chesapeake Award in the Editorial category. Coakley-Thompson's scholarly work includes the dissertation entitled The Use of Popular Media in Multicultural Education: Stressing Implications for the Black/Non-Black Biracial Student. Back to Life is her first novel.Coakley-Thompson, Wendy is the author of 'Back to Life', published 2005 under ISBN 9780758207463 and ISBN 0758207468.