Wendy Salinger

Wendy Lang Salinger (born February 3, 1947) is an American poet and memoirist. A 1981 Guggenheim Fellow, she wrote the 1980 poetry collection Folly River and the 2006 memoir Listen. Biography Wendy Lang Salinger was born on February 3, 1947, in Kansas City, Kansas, and moved eastward to Durham, North Carolina when she was a young child. She attended Charles E. Jordan High School, and wrote articles for The Herald-Sun. She then obtained her BA in English in 1969 from Duke University, where her poems were published for the first time in a literary magazine and where she was part of Phi Beta Kappa.

In the 1970s, she moved to Folly Beach, South Carolina, and she became a visiting and assistant professor of English at the College of Charleston, as well as a researcher, writer, and visiting artist at the South Carolina Arts Commission. and inspired by her time in Folly Beach. She was a MacDowell Colony Fellow in 1982, 1983, and 1985. She also did poetry readings in University of South Carolina Beaufort and the Surfside Beach Branch Library.

In 1983, Richard Wilbur's Creation, an essay collection she edited, was published by University of Michigan Press. She organized writing workshops for New York City Department of Education high school students as the decades-long director of the Schools Project at 92nd Street Y Unterberg Poetry Center.

She got her fourth MacDowell fellowship in 2003, where she worked on the novel Victor Dying, published in 2006. Works Folly River (1980) Listen (2006)