Wendy Salinger is the author of Folly River, which won the National Poetry Series, and a graduate of Duke and the University of Iowa. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Kenyon Review, the Paris Review, and Ploughshares.
She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and has been a fellow at MacDowell. She directs the Schools Project at the 92nd St. Y's Unterberg Poetry Center in New York City.
At MacDowell in 2003, she worked on a book about recovered memory and revised the manuscript of her novel Victor Dying. Excerpts from the novel have appeared in the Kenyon Review.