Biography
Wendy Lang Salinger was born on February 3, 1947, in Kansas City, Kansas, [1] and moved eastward to Durham, North Carolina when she was a young child. [2] She was the daughter of Herman Salinger, who was chair of the Duke University departments of German and comparative literature, and Marion Casting Salinger, who was a researcher on American and Canadian forestry resources and a program administrator at Duke. [3] [4] She attended Charles E. Jordan High School, [5] where she served as yearbook copy-editor [6] and wrote articles for The Herald-Sun . [7] [8] [9] 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. [2] [10] In 1971, she obtained her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Iowa. [1] [11]
In the 1970s, she moved to Folly Beach, South Carolina, [5] 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. [1] She was also a resident poet at the Virginia Commission for the Arts and Humanities. [1] She won the 1980 National Poetry Series Open Competition for her poetry collection Folly River , [12] published as part of the National Poetry Series in 1980 [13] and inspired by her time in Folly Beach. [14] In 1981, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry. [15] She was a MacDowell Colony Fellow in 1982, 1983, and 1985. [16] She also did poetry readings in University of South Carolina Beaufort and the Surfside Beach Branch Library. [17] [10]
In 1983, Richard Wilbur's Creation, an essay collection she edited, was published by University of Michigan Press. [18] [19] In 1988, she was a participant and workshop director at the first Carolina Connections in Charleston, South Carolina. [20] 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. [19] [21]
She got her fourth MacDowell fellowship in 2003, where she worked on the novel Victor Dying, [16] before it became the memoir Listen , [22] published in 2006. [19]
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