Wendy Call is an American writer, editor, translator, and educator. She is the founding co-editor of Best Literary Translations anthology and the author of many books in translation. She lives in Seattle.
Biography
editCall has served as Writer in Residence at a number of institutions, universities, national parks, high schools, visual art centers, a historical archive and a public hospital. She co-edited Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers’ Guide (Penguin, 2007). It was listed as one of the Buzzfeed's "40 Books That Might Help You Write Your Novel" in 2022[1][2][3]
Her book No Word for Welcome: The Mexican Village Faces the Global Economy (Nebraska, 2011) won Grub Street’s National Book Prize for Nonfiction.[4]
She has also translated work by Irma Pineda.[5] A book of her poems titled Nostalgia Doesn't Flow Away Like Riverwater was published in 2024.[6]
Her essays about indigenous Mexican literature and her translations have appeared recently in Diálogo, Kenyon Review online, Michigan Quarterly Review, Orion, and World Literature Today online. Her current writing projects have been supported by 4Culture, Artist Trust, Jack Straw Cultural Center, K2 Foundation, and Seattle’s CityArtist Program. She teaches creative writing, editing, and world literature at Goddard College.[7][8]
In 2022, Call founded Best Literary Translations anthology. Working with three series co-editors, the work aims to showcase the best literary translationsinto English from around the world, published in US journals.[9]
Notable links/interviews
edit- Wendy Call and Shook on the Power of Titles, Decolonization, and Translating Poems in Iterations (2024)[10]
References
edit- ^ Krantz, Rachel (2022-02-27). "40 Books That Might Help You Write a Book". BuzzFeed. Retrieved 2024-11-28.
- ^ "Wendy Call". www.arts.gov. Retrieved 2024-11-28.
- ^ "About". Wendy Call. Retrieved 2024-11-28.
- ^ "GrubStreet | The GrubStreet National Book Prize". GrubStreet. Retrieved 2024-11-28.
- ^ ""The Houses of Your Village Have Eyes." A Poem by Irma Pineda, in Three Languages". Literary Hub. 2024-01-19. Retrieved 2024-11-28.
- ^ "Nostalgia Doesn't Flow Away Like Riverwater by Irma Pineda". World Literature Today. Retrieved 2024-11-28.
- ^ "About". Wendy Call. Retrieved 2024-11-28.
- ^ "Wendy Call | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency". Pacific Lutheran University. Retrieved 2024-11-28.
- ^ "Wendy Call". National Endowment for the Arts. Retrieved November 28, 2024.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ "Wendy Call and Shook on the Power of Titles, Decolonization, and Translating Poems in Iterations". Literary Hub. 2024-01-08. Retrieved 2024-11-28.
