Wendy Chin-Tanner

Wendy Chin-Tanner is the co-founder and executive director of A Wave Blue World, an independent comics publisher, and an award-winning novelist and poet. Educated at Cambridge University in English Literature and Sociology, she co-founded AWBW with her husband Tyler Chin-Tanner in 2005. Her debut novel King of the Armadillos won the Louisiana Literary Award. She is also the author of the poetry collections Turn (finalist for the Oregon Book Award) and Anyone Will Tell You, both published by Sibling Rivalry Press. In comics she co-wrote the graphic novel American Terrorist with Tyler and edited Embodied: An Intersectional Feminist Comics Poetry Anthology. She has served as a founding editor at KIN Poetry Journal, a poetry editor at The Nervous Breakdown for over a decade, and a staff interviewer at Lantern Review. Her work has been covered by The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Ms. Magazine, and NPR. She lives in the Hudson Valley.