Wanda Lou Willis is a folklore historian who specializes in Hoosier folktales and historic research. She is the author of Haunted Hoosier Tales and More Haunted Hoosier Tales.

She is a former features writer for the Indianapolis Star's "Seniority Counts" section and contributor to the SouthernIN on-line magazine and the Suite 101 - Folklore site. Currently, she writes for Country Roads: Southeastern Indiana's Lifestyle Magazine. Wanda has also made numerous appearances on Fox 59's Early Morning show, has been on numerous local and international radio shows, and was a guest hostess on the South Florida radio show Magick Mind.

For many years, she taught folklore at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis and is a popular presenter at schools, universities, libraries, clubs, and historical societies. She has added acting to her list of accomplishments, appearing in Central State: Asylum for the Insane (2006) and Ghost Stories: Walking with the Dead (2007).

A fifth generation Hoosier, Wanda lives in Indianapolis, Indiana. For several years, she shared her life with Joy, her beloved Belgian Shepherd, until her untimely passing in 2007 due to tainted dog food. Though her Joy is gone, she has Hope, a beautiful, loving, foxy Foxhound.