Chicagoan Char­lene Wexler is a grad­u­ate of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Illi­nois. She has been a teacher, den­tal office man­ag­er and a wife, mom and grand­moth­er. In retire­ment her life­long pas­sion for writ­ing has led to her cre­ation of short sto­ries, essays, and novels.