Wendy Videlock is an award winning poet and syndicated newspaper columnist.  She lives in the agricultural town of Palisade where she serves as the sixth poet laureate of Western Colorado. 

Her poems, reviews, and essays appear most notably in Best American Poetry, Poetry Magazine, O Magazine, Hudson Review, Hopkins Review, Rattle, The New York Times, and American Life in Poetry.

Her books include  What's That Supposed to Mean, (EXOT Books), Nevertheless, Slingshots & Love Plums, The Dark Gnu, Wise to the West, (Able Muse Press) and a book of essays: The Poetic Imaginarium: A Worthy Difficulty, (Lithic Press).

Her newest book, Desert Kin: Speaking Animal in the Southwest, is due out from Able Muse Press in early September. 

In the introduction to her first book, Nevertheless, MacArthur finalist AE Stallings says of her work, “Videlock is a magician of wit and whimsy, wisdom being not the least of these”. Timothy Green, editor of Rattle says, “Videlock is one of the few poets I can still read at length and purely for pleasure. Playfully wise and always surprising” Wendy is also a visual artist whose works are featured in galleries throughout western Colorado. Wendy believes that discovering one’s unique voice is a worthy difficulty and that listening deeply is an act of love. Her work is inspired by a love of language, a love of andscape, and by love itself. 

Awards include: The PTBS Sonnet Prize, the Keats Soul Making Prize, The Fischer Prize, the Cantor Prize, The Ekphrastic Rattle Prize. Finalist for the Rattle Poetry Prize, The Colorado Book Award and Colorado Poet Laureate

Wendy's syndicated newspaper column (The Barefoot Laureate) appears in newspapers and magazines across the four-corner states.  Her visual art is featured in galleries across the Western Slope.  

Wendy directs the following Literary Programs:  For the Birds, a collaboration with The Grand Valley Audubon Society , Good Morning Poetry, a local collaboration with D51 schools, Word Up: A Spoken Word collaboration with John Anglim at Copeka, Sculpted Words, a collaboration with GV Creates Art on the Corner Project, among others.