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Dr. Wendy Wimmer

Wisconsin, United States

Member Since: 09/01/2011


Wendy Wimmer's writing has appeared in Blackbird, Per Contra, Barrelhouse, Drunken Boat, Paper Darts, and other publications. She holds a Master of Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and was a Black Mountain Institute PhD fellow at UNLV. She is the co-founder of UntitledTown Book and Author Festival. Her short story collection ENTRY LEVEL: STORIES received the 2021 Autumn House  Fiction Prize and was published in 2022.

Website: http://www.wendywimmer.com

Twitter Username: @wendywimmer


Publications

  • Entry Level: Stories , Autumn House Press (September 27, 2022)
  • "Osculation" , Waxwing (March 9, 2019)
  • "Your Volcolonic Detox Turnaround Starts Now" , Barrelhouse (October 18, 2018)
  • "INGOB" , Barrelhouse (April 8, 2015)
  • "Where She Went" , Per Contra (August 2013)
  • "Passeridae" , Blackbird (October 2012)
  • "Intersomnolence" , Drunken Boat (July 2010)
  • "Lower Midnight" , Paper Darts (July 2012)
  • "Skate Queen" , ANMLY (December 2016)
  • "Billets Doux" , Barrelhouse (September 2006)
  • "Feogin" , Salt and Syntax (October 30, 2017)
  • "Ghosting" , Non-Binary Review (August 2016)
  • "Billets Doux" (reprint) , The Evansville Review (January 2018)

Degrees

  • Master of Arts in English - Creative Writing from University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee (May 2008)
  • Doctoral Degree in English from University of Nevada - Las Vegas (May 2020)

Genres of Interest

Fiction