Wendy Van Camp

Wendy Van Camp has always had an interest in poetry but did not consider herself to be a poet. One day, she happened on a scifaiku writing workshop at a local science fiction convention and was the sole student of the workshop. There, she wrote he first science fiction themed haiku and the first poem she had written since high school. The poem sold immediately. She wrote more. Over the years her free verse and scifaiku poems published in magazines such as "Quantum Visions", "Altered Reality Magazine", "Scifaikuest", "Lit Up", and "Far Horizons". As she began to attend open-mic readings for her poems and teach how to write scifaiku in workshops of her own, Wendy has come to realize that she is indeed now a poet...in spite of herself.

Wendy lives in Southern California with her husband. She enjoys attending science fiction conventions, gemology, urban sketching, and travel. She has won Honorable Mention at the Writer's of the Future Contest and is a graduate of the James Gunn Speculative Fiction Workshop.