About Brenda

Brenda Wilbee is a feature writer and award-winning writer with over 700,000 books sold in the US, Canada, and Holland. Three of her ten books were selected for Guidepost’s one-shot book club, two for Christian Herald’s “Family Life” Book Club, and another book condensed and packaged alongside Chuck Swindoll’s Laugh Again. Three novels were translated into Dutch; the same three were transcribed into Braille. For the Washington State Centennial, two of her Seattle Sweetbriar books were awarded recognition on the “Washington Centennial Bookshelf,” and her first novel, Sweetbriar, has in the past been required reading in the Seattle and Ferndale public school systems.

Brenda has been recognized by Western Washington University for her “Outstanding Academic Achievement & Scholastic Excellence” and she is a long-time contributor to Guidepost’s Daily Devotionals. Her work appears in Zondervan’s Women’s Devotional Bible. Her articles, short stories, and radio scripts have appeared in over a hundred national and international publications—where she’s won awards for her journalism and first-person accounts.

In addition, Brenda’s appeared on numerous radio and TV shows; acted as press agent for Washington’s wheelchair athletes; worked the pressroom for the Romance Writers of America at their annual conferences; served both on- and off -board for the Pacific Northwest Writers Association for the past twenty years; and is a frequent speaker at historical societies, local professional groups, elder hostels, writers conferences, and press conventions. She has shared the platform with people such as Paul Brandt, Sherwood Wirt, Lee Roddy, Laura Kalpakian, John Saul, Don McQuinn, Ken Wales, Anne Rule, Meg Chittenden, Stella Cameron, Gerald DiPego, and many others.

If you'd like Brenda to speak at your organization, e-mail her at Brenda@BrendaWilbee.com.