Wendy Videlock

Wendy Videlock teaches and advocates for the arts as poet laureate of Western Colorado. She is the author of four books of poetry, a children's book and a collection of essays on language, landscape and the imagination. She is the winner of the Keats Soul Making Sonnet Prize, the Cantor Prize and the Fisher Prize. Her work appears in The New York Times, Poetry Magazine, Best American Poetry, Hudson Review, O Magazine and elsewhere. Her syndicated newspaper column, The Barefoot Laureate, appears in newspapers across the four-corner states.