Judy Christie

Judy Christie brings long experience in newspapers and community life to fiction centered on work, friendship, faith, and fresh beginnings. Before becoming a full-time author, she spent about twenty-five years as a reporter and editor and later worked in corporate communications. Wreath introduces Wreath Willis, a sixteen-year-old girl who arrives in the Louisiana town of Landry with determination, practical skill, and a guarded past. While living secretly in a junkyard, she attends school, works toward stability, and forms relationships that challenge her instinct to remain unnoticed. The novel opened the Wreath Willis series and received recognition in Christian fiction for younger readers. Christie’s broader bibliography includes the Green series and the Trumpet & Vine books, both built around small-town change and the social ties that make reinvention possible. Wreath adapts those recurring concerns to a younger protagonist, balancing hardship with resourcefulness and allowing education, work, and chosen community to become concrete steps toward an independent future.