art, design, poetry
book art & design
Recent projects include art design for anthologies and books by poets. I also create artist book mock-ups for my poetry and design occasional broadsides, poetry cards, posters, and other ephemera working with mixed media, monoprinting, letterpress, and collage.
poetry collections & anthologies
Reviews of Reliquary of Debt are available in Grab the Lapels, Portage Magazine and Whale Review. A sincere thank you to the reviewers.
selected writing online
bio
Wendy Vardaman, PhD, has a day job as a digital media specialist—managing website content, editing, and visualizing data. She holds degrees in structural engineering, English, and graphic design and is the author of five collections of poetry. Her creative practice includes editing, prose writing, printing, book arts, and staring out windows.
After a long detour through art and design, she came out of the maze with the bits and pieces assembled in two new chapbooks, thread me an exit (Brain Mill Press 2025), and the other end of the line (Dancing Girl Press 2026).
Recent honors include a residency at Ragdale in 2025 and the 2024 Dick Scuglik Memorial Fellowship and residency for writing about art from Write On, Door County. She served as Madison, Wisconsin, poet laureate from 2012 to 2015 with Sarah Sadie. With Sadie, she published Verse Wisconsin (2009 to 2013), created a micro-press, and co-edited two anthologies. Currently she volunteers as a graphic designer and illustrator for poetry-related causes.
See a list of creative & academic publications, a resume, or an art & design portfolio for more information and work.
