About the Author
Wendy McGrath
Author
WendyMcGrath’s most recent novel Broke City is the final book inher Santa Rosa Trilogy. Previous novels in the series are SantaRosa and North East. Her most recent book ofpoetry, A Revision of Forward, was released in Fall 2015.McGrath works in multiple genres. BOX (CD) 2017 is anadaptation of her long poem into spoken word/experimental jazz/noise by QUARTO& SOUND. MOVEMENT 1 from that CD was nominated for a 2018 Edmonton MusicAward (Jazz Recording of the Year). She recently completed a collaborativemanuscript of poems inspired by the photography of Danny Miles, drummer forJuly Talk and Tongue Helmet. Her poetry, fiction, and non-fiction has beenwidely published. McGrath lives in Edmonton, Alberta, on Treaty 6Territory.
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