Wendy Sumner Winter has been a chef, gallery owner, photographer, painter, curator and community organizer, among other things. She has served as an editor in various capacities, including managing editor, for The Pinch. Her nonfiction, poetry and fiction have appeared, or are forthcoming, in Swill, flashquake, The Pinch, Word Riot, The Missouri Review, Fourth Genre, Switchback, and Monkeybicycle. She teaches writing at The University of Memphis, and cooking wherever invited.