Wendy Call

2003 Alumna

Cottage: Oak

BIO: Wendy Call is co-editor of the widely used craft anthology Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers’ Guide (Penguin, 2007), author of No Word for Welcome: The Mexican Village Faces the Global Economy (Nebraska, 2011), and translator of two forthcoming collections of poetry by Mexican-Zapotec poet Irma Pineda. No Word for Welcome won the Grub Street National Book Prize for Nonfiction (2011), the International Latino Book Award for best Historical / Political Book (2012), and was on several “best books of the year” lists. Wendy been a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow (2015) and Fulbright Scholar to Colombia (2019-2020). She teaches creative nonfiction in Pacific Lutheran University’s MFA program, the Rainier Writing Workshop. She has taught courses on editing at universities, literary centers, and writers’ conferences and founded Goddard College’s literary journal Duende. Wendy is an alumna of two dozen artist residency programs, at five national parks, five universities, a historical archive, a public hospital, and (closest to her heart) Hedgebrook. She has been the developmental editor for many award-winning memoirs, essay collections, and other books of nonfiction, published by trade, university, and independent presses over the last dozen years. Wendy lives in Seattle, Oaxaca, and wherever she can park her sixteen-foot camper trailer.