Monica Wendel

Monica Wendel’s first book, No Apocalypse, was selected by Bob Hicok as the winner of the Georgetown Review Press Poetry Manuscript Contest. She is also the author of three chapbooks, most recently English Kills, which won the Autumn House Press Coal Hill Review Chapbook Contest. She holds an MFA from New York University, where she was awarded Goldwater and Starworks teaching fellowships, and is an assistant professor of composition and creative writing at St. Thomas Aquinas College. After a brief stint in Orlando, Florida, as a Jack Kerouac Writer in Residence, she now lives in Brooklyn, where she volunteers as a writing mentor at Still Waters in a Storm.