Wendy Atwell

About

Wendy Weil Atwell lives in San Antonio, Texas, and writes literary nonfiction, catalog essays and reviews of art for various literary nonfiction and visual arts publications including Art Lies, GlassTire, and …might be good. Atwell is the author of The River Spectacular, essays about a series of public art installations along the San Antonio River, published in 2010. She is currently writing The Güera’s Guide to Ranch Life: Lessons My Father Didn’t Teach Me, a memoir. After her father’s traumatic death, she returns to her family’s South Texas ranch and, with the help of a horned toad and a feisty mare, rustles up alternatives to the same old cowboy stories.