Bio

From a reading at Harry Schwartz in Milwaukee (2013):

Every day, Wendy Wimmer plays dress up, putting on business clothes and going into an office where she wrangles marketing concepts and software developers. I will save you the details but suffice to say, there are some numbers, many numbers, and also, when numbers get tedious, there are statistics. She also makes a really excellent mojito. These two points, the number and the mojito, seem to be unrelated and yet….When she’s not pretending to be important at her day job, she freelances on technology magazines and writes essays and product reviews for several Conde Nast projects. Her creative work has been published in Sassy, Barrelhouse, Abundance,  Sheepshead Review and other lit journals. The story that she’s reading today is called “Passeridae” and was chosen to represent UW-Milwaukee as the short fiction entry in AWP’s Intro to Journals.

From Fictionaut (2012)

I am nothing special.

From Pen America (2025):

Wendy Wimmer is an author and editor living in Wisconsin. Her debut short story collection Entry Level: Stories received the 2021 Autumn House Fiction Prize from judge Deesha Philyaw. She received a Black Mountain Institute fellowship and doctorate from the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. Her novel The Doomscroller’s Companion was a finalist for the AWP James McPherson 2024 Award, and will be forthcoming from University of Wisconsin Press in Fall 2026.