Wendy Lu is a news editor and reporter at HuffPost, and a global speaker on disability representation in the media. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Teen Vogue, Refinery29, and Bustle. She also writes contemporary middle-grade fiction and has participated in NaNoWriMo on and off since 2008. Her fiction writing has received support from Paragraph NY and the Mendocino Coast Writers Conference. She is an extreme plotter and Scrivener fan. She is based in Brooklyn, NY.