Nancy Chadwick grew up in a northern suburb of Chicago where Deerfield was marked by four corners. Making connections to it and to home would later become subjects in her writing. She got her first job at Leo Burnett advertising in Chicago. After working a decade in the advertising agency business, and in international corporate banking, she became a writer, seizing inspiration from her years living in Chicago and San Francisco, and from the many meanderings through the woods of any forest. Her essays have appeared in The Magic of Memoir, Adelaide Literary Magazine, and blogs by the Chicago Writers Association Write City, Brevity, and About Write. Under the Birch Tree (2018) and The Wisdom Of The Willow (2024) are by She Writes Press. Nancy is a graduate of the Marquette University Journalism School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.