About Wendy
Wendy McClure grew up in Oak Park, Illinois, the setting for a surprising number of television sitcoms. She holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Iowa, where she was a Teaching-Writing Fellow. In the fall of 1999 she began writing for the web site Television Without Pity, and a year later she began an online journal called Pound, an account of her somewhat reluctant efforts to lose some damn weight. In March 2003 she posted a collection of vintage Weight Watcher recipe cards on her site with accompanying commentary. and within a month her site was getting over a million hits weekly. (This died down, eventually, thank God, and she built another site, Candyboots, to give the collection a permanent home.) She is a columnist for BUST and her work has appeared in a number of literary journals and magazines, from New American Writing to The New York Times Magazine. She lives in Chicago, where she continues to work as a children’s book editor.
