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Wendy Vardaman, PhD, has a day job as a digital media specialist—managing website content, editing, and visualizing data. She holds degrees in structural engineering, English, and graphic design and is the author of five collections of poetry. Her creative practice includes editing, prose writing, printing, book arts, and staring out windows.

After a long detour through art and design, she came out of the maze with the bits and pieces assembled in two new chapbooks, thread me an exit (Brain Mill Press 2025), and the other end of the line (Dancing Girl Press 2026). Two more collections are forthcoming in 2027: Stage Directions (Cornerstone Press) and The Pandemics (Red Bird Chapbooks).

She is also a certified meditation teacher of the Anytime Anywhere Meditation curriculum from Tergar International, a global Tibetan Buddhist community she has studied with for ten years.

Recent honors include residencies at Virginia Center for Creative Arts (VCCA), Ragdale, and Write On, Door County. She served as Madison, Wisconsin, poet laureate from 2012 to 2015 with Sarah Sadie. With Sadie, she published Verse Wisconsin (2009 to 2013), created a micro-press, and co-edited two anthologies. Currently she volunteers as a graphic designer and illustrator for poetry-related causes.

See a list of creative & academic publications, a resume, or an art & design portfolio for more information and work.