About Wendy

Wendy Klein studied drama and English at the University of Utah and San Francisco State University before leaving the U.S. in 1964. In 1971 she came to England where she qualified as a social worker in 1983, then as a family and couples psychotherapist in 1992. She comes from the kind of background where if you didn’t write, you were the odd one out.

She began to write seriously in 1998-2000 when she completed the first undergraduate diploma in creative writing at Oxford University, followed by the post graduate diploma in modern and contemporary poetry in English at Oxford Brookes University in 2006. Her only novel, Listening for Nightingales, was published in 2002, after which time she has concentrated on poetry.  She has taken part in two Poetry Business Writing Schools (2015 – 2018), and has adjudicated several poetry competitions, most recently The Binsted Open Poetry competition, 2023.  Occasionally she submits her work to poetry magazines, favourites being South, The Frogmore Papers, The High Window, Acumen, Artemis, and The London Grip.  Occasionally her poems are accepted.