Gwendolyn Ryder PoindexterGwendolyn Poindexter is a retired attorney who lives with her husband in the hillside community of Mount Washington in Los Angeles, California. Zoe the Short-Necked Giraffe came out of a dinnertime tradition when she and her husband would create stores to tell to their two then-young sons. Zoe the Short-Necked Giraffe is her first children's book. She is currently working on her next children's book. Read More Read Less