Wendy Vardaman, has a Ph.D. in English from University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. in Engineering from Cornell University. Co-editor of Verse Wisconsin, http://versewisconsin.org, her poems, reviews, and interviews have appeared in a variety of anthologies and journals, including Poetry Daily, Poets.org, Breathe: 101 Contemporary Odes, Riffing on Strings: Creative Writing Inspired by String Theory, Letters to the World, Poet Lore, qarrtsiluni, Mezzo Cammin, Nerve Cowboy, Free Verse, Wisconsin People & Ideas, Women’s Review of Books, Rain Taxi Review, Rattle and Portland Review. The author of Obstructed View (Fireweed Press, 2009), she has been nominated for several Pushcart Prizes and was runner-up in 2004 for the Council for Wisconsin Writers’ Lorine Niedecker Award. She lives in Madison, WI with husband, Thomas DuBois, has three children, and works for the children’s theater company, The Young Shakespeare Players.

Obstructed View (Fireweed Press, 2009)

Breathe: 101 Contemporary Odes (C & R Press, 2009), Appleseeds (Sacred Fools Press, 2008), Letters to the World (Red Hen Press, 2008), Riffing on Strings: Creative Writing Inspired by String Theory (Scriblerus Press, 2008)

Ariel, Aurorean, Bent Pin Quarterly, Cup of Poems, Damselfly Press, Fifth Wednesday Journal, Free Verse, kaleidowhirl, Main Street Rag, Mid-American Poetry Review, Moon Journal, Nerve Cowboy, New Orphic Review, Pivot, Poet Lore, Poetry Daily, Portland Review, Presence, Qarrtsiluni, Quiddity, Sonnet Scroll, Thanal Online, The Sylvan Echo, Wisconsin Academy Review, Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets Museletter, Wisconsin Poet's Calendar