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Wendy Call

Wendy Call
Wendy Call co-edited Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers’ Guide (Penguin, 2007) and wrote No Word for Welcome (Nebraska, 2011), winner of the Grub Street National Book Prize. “Beautiful Flesh,” which first appeared in the Georgia Review, is part of an essay series. Other essays in the series have appeared in American Journal of Nursing, Bellingham Review, StoryQuarterly, and Yes! magazine. “Beautiful Flesh” was inspired by artist residencies Wendy Call completed at Harborview Medical Center and the American Antiquarian Society.


“The Houses of Your Village Have Eyes.” A Poem by Irma Pineda, in Three Languages

From "Nostalgia Doesn't Flow Away Like Riverwater," Translated by Wendy Call, in English, Zapotec, and Spanish
January 19, 2024  By Wendy Call
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The Mysteries of the Pancreas: Of the Body, Cancer, and Death

"When I learned my mother had pancreatic cancer, I was insufficiently fazed."
June 15, 2017  By Wendy Call
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