gwendolyn bounds

  Gwendolyn (Wendy) Bounds writes and creates video content about home improvement and housing for The Wall Street Journal and can often be found wielding a chainsaw, weed-whacker or maul while reporting her first-person column called“About the House.” Her ongoing coverage, which focuses on issues of sustainability and energy efficiency, can be found at the Web site Pure Shelter. She served as WSJ’s small business editor and columnist from 2004 to 2008 and over the past decade at the paper has chronicled the rise and fall of companies in many industries including fashion, travel, retail, marketing and media.

  Bounds is an on-air contributor to ABC News, including its "Good Morning America," for housing and general consumer economic issues, and "Good Money" personal finance show. She also appears regularly on CNBC's "The Call" and has been a guest on the CNN, MSNBC, DIY Network and Fox News.

  She is a speaker and moderator of panels on environmental issues, entrepreneurship and the arts, and has presented at venues such as Lincoln Center, the Audubon Society, the Simon Dorsky Museum of Art, and investment banking firm David N. Deutsch & Co.'s executive roundtable.

  Bounds' second non-fiction book, "Little Chapel on the River," was published June 28, 2005 in hardcover by HarperCollins' William Morrow imprint and in paperback by Harper in August, 2006. The book chronicles her experiences at an old Irish pub in New York's historic Hudson River Valley after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. 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 contributed to the 2009 edition of "Now Write! Nonfiction."

  In 2010, Bounds was awarded the Next Generation Leadership Award from the N.C. Halls of Fame, which recognizes individuals representing leadership in their fields. Her first-person essay "Amid the Ashes, Baby Carriages, Shoes, Family Photos," which she co-authored with Kathryn Kranhold, won the 2002 Front Page Award for September 11th commentary from the Newswoman’s Club of New York.

  In addition to The Wall Street Journal, Bounds' work has appeared in multiple outlets, including The New York Times, Good Housekeeping, Shape, Ladies' Home Journal, The Miami Herald, and The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.). She is a native of North Carolina and graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she served on the Board of Visitors from 2005 to 2009.

  She lives in the Hudson River Valley and is a member of the board of trustees for the Putnam County Historical Society & Foundry School Museum.