Wendy McVicker currently the poet laureate of Athens, Ohio, and has been writing and stirring up poetry wherever she can (often through the Ohio Arts Council's Arts Learning program) for a lot of years. Her chapbook, The Dancer's Notes, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2016. Her most recent publications have been in the anthology The BOOM Project: Voices of a Generation (eds. Kimberly Garts Crum and Bonnie Omer Johnson) and in Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel.