:Wendy Call
{{Short description|American writer and translator}}
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| education = Oberlin College, Bennington College
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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
Call 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{{Cite web |last=Krantz |first=Rachel |date=2022-02-27 |title=40 Books That Might Help You Write a Book |url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/rachelkrantz/books-that-will-help-you-write-a-novel |access-date=2024-11-28 |website=BuzzFeed |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Wendy Call |url=https://www.arts.gov/impact/literary-arts/translation-fellows/wendy-call |access-date=2024-11-28 |website=www.arts.gov |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=About |url=https://www.wendycall.com/aboutwendy |access-date=2024-11-28 |website=Wendy Call |language=en-US}}
Her book No Word for Welcome: The Mexican Village Faces the Global Economy (Nebraska, 2011) won Grub Street's National Book Prize for Nonfiction.{{Cite web |title=GrubStreet {{!}} The GrubStreet National Book Prize |url=https://grubstreet.org/about/the-grubstreet-national-book-prize |access-date=2024-11-28 |website=GrubStreet |language=en-US}}
She has also translated work by Irma Pineda.{{Cite web |date=2024-01-19 |title="The Houses of Your Village Have Eyes." A Poem by Irma Pineda, in Three Languages |url=https://lithub.com/the-houses-of-your-village-have-eyes-a-poem-by-irma-pineda-in-three-languages/ |access-date=2024-11-28 |website=Literary Hub |language=en-US}} A book of her poems titled Nostalgia Doesn't Flow Away Like Riverwater was published in 2024.{{Cite web |title=Nostalgia Doesn’t Flow Away Like Riverwater by Irma Pineda |url=https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2024/july/nostalgia-doesnt-flow-away-riverwater-irma-pineda |access-date=2024-11-28 |website=World Literature Today |language=en}}
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.{{Cite web |title=About |url=https://www.wendycall.com/aboutwendy |access-date=2024-11-28 |website=Wendy Call |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Wendy Call {{!}} MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency |url=https://www.plu.edu/mfa/staff/wendy-call/ |access-date=2024-11-28 |website=Pacific Lutheran University |language=en-US}} She teaches creative nonfiction in the Rainier Writing Workshop, the MFA in creative writing program of Pacific Lutheran University.{{Cite web |last=Poets |first=Academy of American |title=Wendy Call |url=https://poets.org/contributor/wendy-call |access-date=2024-11-28 |website=Poets.org |language=en}}
In 2022, Call founded Best Literary Translations anthology. Working with three series co-editors, the work aims to showcase the best literary translations into English from around the world, published in US journals.{{Cite web |title=Wendy Call |url=https://www.arts.gov/impact/literary-arts/translation-fellows/wendy-call |access-date=November 28, 2024 |website=National Endowment for the Arts}}{{Source-attribution}}
Notable links/interviews
- Wendy Call and Shook on the Power of Titles, Decolonization, and Translating Poems in Iterations (2024){{Cite web |date=2024-01-08 |title=Wendy Call and Shook on the Power of Titles, Decolonization, and Translating Poems in Iterations |url=https://lithub.com/wendy-call-and-shook-on-the-power-of-titles-decolonization-and-translating-poems-in-iterations/ |access-date=2024-11-28 |website=Literary Hub |language=en-US}}
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