Wanda Bailey Clark

Wanda Bailey Clark is a North Carolina native, author, trainer, and lifelong storyteller with a passion for equipping others with practical knowledge. Born and raised in North Carolina, she still lives less than fifty miles from where her family originally settled in the early 1800s. Her roots in faith, family, and a long tradition of storytelling, affectionately known in her family as “Bailey yarns,” continue to influence her writing and teaching today.

Before retiring, Wanda built a successful career as an instructional designer where she created training programs and learning systems for a wide range of industries. Her work focused on helping people understand complex information in practical and easy-to-use ways. One of her innovations earned a prestigious Brandon Hall Excellence Award for Best Advance in Content and/or Content Management Technology. The award recognized a training automation algorithm she designed to deliver role-specific learning.

Today, Wanda continues to teach, write, and create through several entrepreneurial ventures. She co-owns Pantrystuffers LLC with business partner Steve Moore. Together they develop books and training programs focused on preparedness, practical living, and self-reliance. She also runs Two Crafty Bees, LLC with her daughter-in-love Bobbie, where they create freeze-dried candy, teach crafting skills, and share practical strategies for living creatively and doing more with less.

Wanda’s writing focuses on preparedness, food preservation, pantry management, and practical home skills. Her book Rehydration Calculations Made Easy was created to solve a common challenge many home cooks and preparedness enthusiasts face. It provides a simple way to substitute dehydrated, freeze-dried, and powdered ingredients in everyday recipes.

Driven by her Christian faith and a lifelong love of learning, writing, and teaching, Wanda approaches every project as an opportunity to serve others. Her mission as an author is simple. She wants to equip people with practical knowledge, confidence, and tools that help them live prepared, capable, and resourceful lives.