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The Worlds only Everglades-River of Grass. Land. Water. Both at once.
5 ½ x 11”
Handmade Book, paper and ink
2013

Wendy Call
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Wendy Call is a writer, editor, translator, and educator. She has become something of an itinerant
Writer in Residence, in 2013 at Acadia and Everglades National Parks, where she created the two similar
handmade books based on “American Sentences.” Other residencies attended were the Joshua Tree
and North Cascades National Parks in 2012, and Cornell College of Iowa, the Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller
National Historical Park of Vermont, and The Studios of Key West in 2011. She has also been Writer in
Residence at a dozen other institutions, including the New College of Florida (2010), Seattle University
(2009) and Seattle's Richard Hugo House (2006-2008).
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.
www.wendycall.com
Based in Seattle, Washington