Wendy Call has served as Writer in Residence at twenty-four institutions, including 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) and the annual Best Literary Translations (Deep Vellum, 2024). Her book No Word for Welcome: The Mexican Village Faces the Global Economy (Nebraska, 2011) won Grub Street’s National Book Prize for Nonfiction and an International Latino Book Award. She has translated three books of poetry by women writing in Mexican languages. She serves on the nonfiction faculty of the Rainier Writing Workshop and lives in Seattle and Oaxaca. 

Website: http://www.wendycall.com

Twitter Username: @wendycallwrites

Publications

• No Word for Welcome: The Mexican Village Faces the Global Economy , University of Nebraska Press (June 1, 2011)
• Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers' Guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University , Penguin / Plume (January 31, 2007)

Awards

• Grub Street National Book Prize for Nonfiction(2011)
• International Latino Book Award for Best History / Political Book(2012)
• NEA Fellowship in Poetry Translation(2015)

Employment

• BFA Faculty at Goddard College (March 2013 - August 2015)
• Distinguished Writer in Residence at Cornell College (September 2023 - October 2023)
• Writer in Residence at New College of Florida (December 2009 - May 2010)
• Distinguished Northwest Writer in Residence at Seattle University (January 2009 - April 2009)
• Assistant/Associate Professor of English at Pacific Lutheran University (September 2015 - May 2022)
• Nonfiction Faculty at Rainier Writing Workshop @ Pacific Lutheran University (June 2020 - )

Degrees

• Bachelor of Arts in Biology from Oberlin College (May 1990)
• Master of Fine Arts in Writing and Literature from Bennington Writing Seminars (June 2007)

Genres of Interest

Creative nonfiction, Poetry