Wendy Kussmaul

Author. Poet. Virtual world builder. Founder of MoonCastleStudio.

I create portals....

Books that breathe...

worlds that whisper...

poetry that does not ask permission to exist....

My mind dances with the letters…… and I stopped apologizing for that a long time ago.

What the world called difficulty……

I called a door....

Dyslexia gave me something no classroom ever could……

the ability to feel language before I could read it……

to build worlds from the inside out.

My stories rise from Bourbon Street echoes and moonlit St. Augustine mysteries……

where memory meets myth……

and bare feet still know the way home.

From Life After the Dance to The Whisker Sleuths……

through poetry collections and virtual worlds……

my work lives in the sacred space where storytelling and healing become the same thing.

I write to remember……

to reclaim……

and to stand fully inside my own voice.

My grandmother taught me to dance with the letters instead of fighting them……

I have been dancing ever since.