Wendy Drexler is a recipient of a 2022 artist fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. In addition to Harvest of What Remains, she is the author of three previous collections: Western Motel (Turning Point, 2012), Before There Was Before (Iris Press, 2017), and Notes from the Column of Memory  (Terrapin, 2022). In 2016 she co-authored her first children’s book, Buzz, Ruby, and Their City Chicks.

Her poems have appeared in Barrow Street, J Journal, Mid-American Review, Nimrod, Pangyrus, Prairie Schooner, The Sun, The Hudson Review, and The Threepenny Review, among others. She was awarded the 2025 E.E. Cummings Prize from the New England Poetry Club. Wendy served as poet in residence at New Mission High School in Hyde Park, MA, from 2018–2023, and as programming co-chair for the New England Poetry Club from 2016–2024. She currently serves on the Club’s advisory board.

Wendy’s poems have been nominated for multiple Pushcart Prizes and in 2025 she was nominated by Autumn Sky Poetry DAILY for Best of the Net for her poem “Watching Everything Becoming Completely Itself.” Her ekphrastic poem “Notes from the Column of Memory” won the 2021 Juror’s Prize for Art on the Trails: Mending, an installation of sculptures at the Beals Preserve, Southborough, MA. She also won a writing prize for her ekphrastic poem “What’s to Be Is Already Written,” based on a photo from the Griffin Museum of Photography’s exhibit “Once Upon a Time: Photographs That Inspire Tall Tales,” 2022, Lafayette City Center, Boston. Her poem “And I Say Yes to the Way the Grass” was published on masspoetry.org for Mass Poetry’s online series, The Hard Work of Hope, and was also featured on a placard in the window of the Harvard Coop, Cambridge, MA, as part of the Harvard Square Poetry Stroll in 2022. An excerpt from one of her poems was featured by Mass Poetry as “Rain Poetry” on a Salem, MA, sidewalk.

Wendy grew up Denver, Colorado, and now lives in Belmont, Massachusetts. Her daughter Julia Baron, son in law, and granddaughter live in Brooklyn, NY. Her son, the actor Noah Baron, daughter in law, and grandson live in Encino, CA.