Wendy McVicker

Wendy McVicker, 2020-2022 Poet Laureate of Athens, Ohio, is a longtime Ohio Arts Council teaching artist. Her most recent chapbook, Alone in the Burning, was released by Sheila-Na-Gig Editions in November, 2024. She loves collaborating with other artists and performs with instrumentalist Emily Prince under the name “another language altogether” whenever she gets the chance. Stronger When We Touch is her first full-length collaboration with another poet. Wendy McVicker and Cathy Cultice Lentes admired each other’s work from afar before becoming friends and have often published in the same literary journals and anthologies, most recently, I Thought I Heard a Cardinal Sing, Ohio’s Appalachian voices (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, 2022) and Women Speak: Volume 9 (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, 2024) . They are frequent contributors to Northern Appalachian Review.