Wendy Call is a freelance writer, editor, and teacher of creative writing. She was the 2010 Writer in Residence at the New College of Florida, the state's public honors college; a 2009 Distinguished Writer in Residence at Seattle University; and the 2006-2008 Writer in Residence at Seattle's Richard Hugo House, the country's third-largest literary center.

She co-edited Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers’ Guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University (Plume/Penguin, 2007) with Mark Kramer. Telling True Stories is an anthology of writing advice from some of the country’s best-known writers of nonfiction.

Wendy’s narrative nonfiction book, No Word for Welcome, forthcoming from the University of Nebraska Press in Spring 2011, explores how economic globalization intersects with village life in a region of southern Mexico called the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Grants from the arts commissions of Seattle (2006), King County (2007), and Washington State (2006 and 2009), as well as the Oberlin College Alumni Association, have supported the research and writing of the book. Wendy was a 2000-2002 Writing Fellow of the Institute of Current World Affairs in the Mexican isthmus — the setting of No Word for Welcome.

Her nonfiction writing and her translations (from Spanish) of poetry and fiction have appeared in more than fifty magazines and literary journals, and in several anthologies. In many publications her photographs accompany her writing.

Wendy has worked as a writer and editor since 2000. Before that, she devoted a decade to work for social change organizations in Boston and Seattle. She holds a BA in biology from Oberlin College and a MFA in writing and literature from the Bennington College Writing Seminars. She is a member of the Macondo Writers' Workshop, founded by Sandra Cisneros. Her current writing projects are supported by the Seattle Mayor's Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs, 4Culture and Artist Trust.

She has recently taught creative writing at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington, as well at newsrooms in the United States and Mexico, public libraries, community centers, public high schools, and county jails. She worked with a team of writers and publishing industry professionals to design and present the annual Artist Trust's Literary EDGE program, a professional development program for writers throughout Washington State.

The daughter of a middle-school math teacher and a career Navy officer from rural Michigan, Wendy grew up on and around military bases in Florida, Pennsylvania, southern California, and southern Maryland. She currently lives in Seattle and Miami.