Wendy N. Wagner grew up in a town so tiny it didn’t even have a post office. With no television reception, she became a rabid reader, waiting impatiently for the bookmobile’s fortnightly visit to her tiny hometown. Today, her family struggles to find room for her expanding book collection in their Portland, Oregon, home. She really likes books about horror movies, ecology, running, and vegan cooking.

Wendy’s work ranges from horror fiction to nature writing, with essays, poems, and short stories in over seventy venues.  Her short fiction has been nominated for the Shirley Jackson Award, and her gothic novella The Secret Skin was listed on The Washington Post‘s 2021 year’s best SF/F/H. She is also the author of the horror novel The Deer Kings and An Oath of Dogs, a sci-fi thriller (as well as two novels for the Pathfinder role-playing game). A Hugo award-winning and Locus award-nominated editor of short fiction, she serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Nightmare Magazine and the Managing/Senior Editor of  Lightspeed Magazine. She previously served as the Guest Editor of Queers Destroy Horror! and as the Nonfiction Editor of both Women Destroy Science Fiction! and Women Destroy Fantasy!.

When she’s not writing or editing, she’s probably out exploring the world on foot. She loves running, hiking, and walking her dog (who might actually be a Muppet in disguise).