Gillian Marchenko

Christian, Wife, Mother, Writer, Speaker, Advocate

Gillian Marchenko holds a Bachelors of Arts degree in Communications with an emphasis on writing from Moody Bible Institute. Her work has appeared in Mom Sense Magazine, EFCA Today and The Four Cornered Universe, a digital literary magazine. She is a Chicago Special Needs Parent Examiner for Examiner.com and has contributed on-line to Chicago Moms Blog and Grown in My Heart, an adoption network. Currently, Gillian is finishing a memoir entitled “KRASATA, A Memoir of Motherhood, Down syndrome and Unexpected Beauty” about giving birth to her daughter Polly and her diagnosis of Down syndrome in the former Soviet Union.