Wendy Robson Penner

I was born in Winnipeg, Canada. After receiving a journalism degree from Carleton University in Ottawa, I moved to Toronto and started writing fiction. I was in Roger Greenwald’s writers’ workshop at Innis College, University of Toronto, and the writing program at the School of Fine Arts at the Banff Centre, Alberta.

From the age of twenty-five, the experiences I looked for as a fiction writer led me to travel widely and to work in Mexico, Japan and across Canadian – as a speechwriter, current-events researcher, news reporter, business writer, commercial translator, copywriter and instructor. 

I am married to the poet Gabriel Magaña Merlo. We live in San Antonio Tlayacapan, Jalisco, Mexico. Together, we’ve translated the poetry of several Canadian poets into Spanish. After decades of writing short stories, I’m presently at work on my second novel.