Bio: Wen focuses on enterprise feature stories in the metro section, writing mostly about children, family and medical issues. A staff writer since 1986, she has covered several beats, including the Boston public schools, consumer news and human behavior. She also served for several years on the Globe's Spotlight Team, an investigative reporting team. In 2004, she was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in feature writing for a series on a troubled mother's decision to give up her children to adoption. That same series won her a 2004 Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism for distinguished coverage of children and family issues. A graduate of Harvard College, Wen previously worked as a reporter at The Star-Ledger in Newark, NJ and The Advocate in Stamford, CT.