Joe Wenderoth (born 1966) is an American writer, performer, teacher, and film-maker. He has published six books: four books of poetry, an

epistolary novel An epistolary novel is a novel written as a series of letters. The term is often extended to cover novels that intersperse documents of other kinds with the letters, most commonly diary entries and newspaper clippings, and sometimes considered ...

, and a book of essays. Wenderoth curates "The Seizure State", which appears in the Brooklyn-based magazine ''Gigantic''. He also produces ''About Brett Favre'', which is the podcast associated with "The Seizure State". Wenderoth's work is widely anthologized, and has been published in collections and periodicals such as ''Harper's'', ''The Nation'', ''The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories'', ''Best American Poetry 2007'', ''Best American Essays 2008'', ''Poetry 180'', ''The Next American Essay'', ''The Best American Prose Poems: From Poe To Present'', ''The Body Electric'', ''The New American Poets: A Bread Loaf Anthology'', and ''American Poetry: Next Generation''. In 2003, the One Yellow Rabbit theater company performed an adaptation of Wenderoth's ''Letters To Wendy's''. The adaptation was done by

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(of

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) and Blake Brooker, both of whom also starred in the production. In 2007, Wenderoth performed in collaboration with

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(of the

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) in Brooklyn at the Issue Project Room. Wenderoth is a full professor in the graduate Creative Writing Program at the

University of California at Davis The University of California, Davis (UC Davis, UCD, or Davis) is a public land-grant research university near Davis, California. Named a Public Ivy, it is the northernmost of the ten campuses of the University of California system. The institut ...

. Originally from

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, Weneroth received his M.F.A. from

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Bibliography

* ''Letters to Wendy's'' (Verse Press, 2000), epistolary novel Poetry * ''If I Don't Breathe How Do I Sleep'' (

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, 2014) * ''No Real Light'' (Wave Books, 2007) * ''It Is If I Speak'' (

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, 2000) * ''The Endearment'' (Short Line Editions, 1999) * ''Disfortune'' (Wesleyan University Press, 1995) Essays * ''The Holy Spirit of Life: Essays Written for John Ashcroft's Secret Self'' (Wave Books, 2005)

References

External links

Wenderoth's Youtube channel

Audio files of Wenderoth at archive.org
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