Wendy Van Camp is the Poet Laureate for the City of Anaheim, CA. She is a speculative poet, author, and pen and ink illustrator. Her debut novelette, The Curate's Brother: A Jane Austen Variation of Persuasion.
(Indy Published, 2014), will see its novel sequel Christmas in Kellynch published next year.
Her poetry collection The Planets: a scifaiku poetry collection (Indy Published, 2019) was an Elgin Award finalist for 2020 & 2021. She is both poet and illustrator of the collection. Time and Space: a speculative poetry
collection (Indy Published, in progress), and the editor of Eccentric Orbits 2, 3, and 4 (Dimensionfold Publishing, 2021, 2022, 2023), Anaheim Poetry Review (Indy Published, 2023), and Eye To The Telescope #46, (SFPA Publishing, 2022).
Wendy's short fiction and poetry has appeared in numerous venues, including multiple editions of Eccentric Orbits and The Starlight Scifaiku Review; Star*Line, The Lotus Tree Literary Review; Quantum Visions; Far Horizons; Lit Up; and The Junction.
Wendy is a 2017 graduate of the Ad Astra Speculative Fiction Workshop. She is a member of Codex, The Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association, and the Independent Book Publishers Association. You can find her on Twitter (@wvancamp), Medium (@wvancamp), Mastodon (@me.dm@wvancamp), Instagram (@nowastedink) and her portfolio website (https://wendyvancamp.com). Wendy makes her home in Southern California with her husband.