Wolf Bahren is the pen name used by Kristi Bahrenburg Janzen for her fiction.

 

She has been a writer and editor for most of her life, including working as foreign correspondent, reporter, managing editor, copy editor,  fact checker, and PR & marketing consultant. As a journalist, she has covered international finance, business, trade, economics, agriculture and food. Her stories have been published in a variety of magazines and newspapers including Edible Chesapeake, Mother Earth News, and The Wall Street Journal.

 

On the fiction side, her third thriller, The Secessionist's Wife, is due out in 2026.  Her earlier novels, Source of Deceit (2020) and Agents of Suzharia (2016), were released under her own imprint, Pigeon Post Books, and are available on Amazon.

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Since the spring of 2023, she has been teaching first-year writing (UW1020) in the University Writing Program at George Washington University in Washington, DC.

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​Kristi has a Bachelor of Arts in economics from Cornell and a Master of International Affairs from Columbia. She considers the lessons she learned from growing up in Poughkeepsie, NY, working odd jobs, traveling, listening to others, and living her life as important as her formal education. The mother of three, she credits her children with teaching her countless lessons as well. Prince George's County, Maryland has been her home for more than 25 years.