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I work as a developmental and substantive editor for individual authors as well as for institutions. My clients have included Harvard University’s Nieman Foundation, the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, the Solidago Foundation, and other nonprofit organizations.

I co-edited Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers’ Guide (Plume/Penguin, 2007) with Mark Kramer.

Telling True Stories Bookcover

Recent books I ha've edited include the memoir of a civil rights lawyer, published by Chicago Review Press in Fall 2009, and a narrative history about U.S. and Soviet stewardesses, published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in Spring 2013. I have served on the editorial board of Dollars & Sense magazine and as staff editor for Grassroots International. I am part of the advisory board for the online literary journal Conversations Across Borders and serve as faculty coordinator and advisor for Goddard College's new undergraduate literary journal, launching in Spring 2014.

Read a review of Telling True Stories from The Writer.

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"Wendy Call is an editor extraordinaire: professional, friendly, and detail-oriented. As my editor in Telling True Stories, Wendy took the time to not only listen to my words but also to hear what my heart had to say. I'd be happy to work with her again.”
Loung Ung,
Author, First They Killed My Father and Lucky Child
Contributor, Telling True Stories

 

 

Photo above: Museum, Templo Mayor, Mexico City, 2004
Photo below: Parking garage, Durham, North Carolina, 2007