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Wendy Brenner

About

Wendy Brenner is the author of two books of fiction and the recipient of an NEA fellowship. Her work has appeared in The Best American Essays, in The Best American Magazine Writing, and on National Public Radio’s Selected Shorts. She is a contributing editor for the Oxford American.

Articles

Love and Death in the Cape Fear Serpentarium

By Wendy Brenner
Issue 54, Fall 2006

About A Girl

At the time, I just wished she were normal. I was mortified by her weird hobby, her tentative, “sensitive” way of speaking, her uncombed and unfeathered hair, her failure to wear makeup to cover her...

By Wendy Brenner
Issue 81, Summer 2013

Strange Beads

I could no longer remember what it felt like not to spend most of each day in wary negotiation with pain. I missed birthdays, weddings, and funerals. Many days it hurt to wear clothes; jewelry seemed...

By Wendy Brenner

Telegram

By Wendy Brenner
Issue 124, Spring 2024

Don’t Bleed on the Artwork: Notes from the Afterlife

At the frame shop there is so much beauty, it can’t be real. Maybe this is the afterlife, I think. Or purgatory.

By Wendy Brenner