Gina Wickwar is a modern Oz author. Her novel The Hidden Prince of Oz (2000). Her article recounting the writing of that book appeared in The Baum Bugle, Vol. 45 No. 2 (Autumn 2001).
Wickwar attended the University of Alaska; she wrote her master's degree thesis on L. Frank Baum's Oz novels ("An American in Fairyland: A Study of L. Frank Baum's Oz Books"). Her manuscript for Hidden Prince won the centennial contest for a new Oz book sponsored by The International Wizard of Oz Club.
Wickwar's second Oz novel, Toto of Oz, was published in 2006. (It should not be confused with Chris Dulabone's Toto in Oz of 1986.)