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About Wendy Joseph
Creative and Versatile
Wendy Joseph is an award-winning novelist, dramatist, poet, songwriter, actor, and storyteller. Her novel The Witch's Hand is a swashbuckling, thinking person's sword and sorcery tale. Her novella The Diary of Bobbie MacBride follows a dashing sea lass to the War of 1812 with pirate Jean Lafitte. Her plays Gargoyles, The Hamlet Interview, Oil in the Sound, and Booking Hold were produced to acclaim in Seattle. "Earnesto Visits the Five Spot" won a Bad Hemingway short story contest. Wendy's true story song about tugboats saving a floating Seattle bridge, "Tugboats Pullin' on the Bridge Lines" won the Seattle Maritime Folknet songwriting contest, and she won the Seattle Songs and Stories of the Sea oral storytelling contest with her story "Burial at Sea." Her poem "Chief Joseph" won the Seattle Writers Asso. poetry contest. She received an in-house Oscar for her role as a homeless woman in Catholic Community Services' De-escalation video.
Her poetry has been published in Bricolage, The Poetic Bond, Greek Fire, Along the Shore, and Ha!
She received a King County, WA, 4Culture grant for writing her screenplay, Poster Girls, about the Rosie the Riveters of WWII. Poster Girls is in pre-production development.
Wendy sailed as a deckhand in the US Merchant Marine for fifteen years, steering through typhoons and outrunning pirates. She can say "Arrgh!" in twenty-four languages, and all her sea stories are true. She holds two Master's degrees in English and can splice a twelve strand line while doing Shakespeare.
Wendy lives in the wilds of Washington State with her Siamese cats, who are extraordinarily kind to humans.