Wendy Litner is a Canadian television writer and producer, [1] most noted as creator of the web series How to Buy a Baby [2] and My Dead Mom . [3]
Both series were based in part on Litner's own life, with How to Buy a Baby centred on her experience pursuing fertility treatment after struggling to get pregnant, [2] and My Dead Mom focusing on her experience navigating grief after the death of her mother. [1]
She has been a two-time Canadian Screen Award winner for Best Writing in a Web Series, at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards in 2020 for How to Buy a Baby and at the 13th Canadian Screen Awards in 2025 for My Dead Mom. [4]
She has also written for the television series The Beaverton , Pretty Hard Cases , Children Ruin Everything , Popularity Papers and Run the Burbs , and the web series The D Cut .