Gail Chehab was born and raised in a small town nestled in the Hudson Valley just north of New York City. She studied International Business at The American University in  Washington, D.C.  After earning a bachelor’s degree, she worked for a Japanese trading company in Manhattan for several years until she returned to graduate school at Pepperdine University in California where she received an MBA in International Business. During this time, she completed her last year of studies in Paris. Upon graduation, she moved to a small town in Mexico where she worked as the assistant to the CFO at the largest steel plant in Mexico. Chehab thrived in this unchartered territory where she was the only American. She eventually returned to New York where she worked for Deutche Bank N.A. in investment banking and then for the Conference Board as Director of Asia Pacific.

Upon the birth of her first child, Chehab realized in the hospital that she couldn’t work seven days a week and travel the world so she put her energy into being a full-time mother. A few years later, Chehab, her husband, and two children moved cross country to California where she took her first creative writing course at a local college. During the ten-week course, Chehab began writing her first novel, The Echo of Sand, which won the First Series Award for the Novel at Mid-List Press. The first chapter of The Echo of Sand was published by Carve Magazine and has been honored with numerous awards.

Her current works-in-progress include the young adult novel Light from the Disappearing Sun—recognized by Joyce Carol Oates as Honorable Mention for the Zeotrope: All-Story Fiction Contest and chosen as runner-up for the San Diego Book Award for the Unpublished Young Adult Novel—and “Milk and Cookies with the President,” a picture book manuscript that was a finalist in the Pacific Northwest Writers Association’s awards.

Chehab’s works have also been featured and recognized by numerous publications and literary organizations to include Ohio State University’s The Journal, The Briar Cliff Review, Cutthroat Magazine, South West Writers, Santa Fe Writers Project, Chautauqua Literary Journal, New Millennium, and New York Stories.