Joe Wenderoth is the author of two books of poems, Disfortune (1995) and It Is If I Speak (2000), both from Wesleyan University Press, and a chapbook, The Endearment (1999), from Shortline Editions. His new book, a novel entitled Letters to Wendy's, has just been published by Verse Press. He is Assistant Professor of English at Southwest State University in Marshall, Minnesota.