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WENDY CALL
July & August, 2003 (Oak Cottage)
Nonfiction (narrative, investigative, activist), Translation (poetry, short stories)
Books, Book Chapters and Anthologized Writing:
- Start to Finish: A Nieman Anthology on Narrative Journalism, co-edited with Mark Kramer. Nieman Foundation, Harvard University (2006)
- “El istmo, visto por ojos norteamericanos; cien años de la historia istmeña en el New York Times,” El Istmo de Tehuantepec. Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (2005)
- “Anarchism,” Shock & Awe: War on Words. New Pacific Press (2004)
- Ante el Plan Puebla Panamá, Mesoamérica Resiste, co-authored with Juan Carlos Beas Torres and Guillermo Hernandez. Editorial Antequera (2002)
- “Mexico’s Highway to Hell: Native Peoples Fight for Sustainable Development,” reprinted in: Tropical Rainforests: Latin American Nature and Society in Transition. Jaguar Books/Scholarly Resources (2001); Real World International: A Reader in Economics, Business and Politics. Economic Affairs Bureau (1999); and Environment in Crisis. Economic Affairs Bureau (1999)
- Selected Publications - Articles and Essays:
- “Seeing the Forest, Not Just the Trees: A Guatemalan Village and Conservation,” Terrain: A Journal of Built & Natural Environments, #14 (Winter/Spring 2004)
- “The Global Economy Sows New World Disorder/La economía global siembra un Nuevo desorden mundial,” VIVA NY / New York Daily News (November 17, 2003)
- “Information, consultation, Participation (and the Lack Thereof): The Inter-American Development Bank and Plan Puebla-Panama,” Freedominfo. The National Security Archive (December 5, 2003)
- “Two Ways to Beat a Shrimp Farm: Community Organizing in Mexico and Guatemala,” NACLA Report on the Americas, XXXVIII, #5. North American Congress on Latin America (May/June 2003)
- “Combating Coca-Cola and the Global Conquistadores,” Colorlines: Race, Culture, Action, V6#2. ARC Publications (Summer 2003)
- “The Politics of Representation,” ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America, V2 #3. Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University (Spring 2003)
- “Learning to Distinguish Bicycles from Refrigerators: A Letter from Tehuantepec,” Blue Mesa Review, #15. University of New Mexico (Spring 2003).
- “Living Elsewhere in 16 Steps,” co-authored with Sasha Welland, Chain, #9. University of Hawai’I (Summer 2002)
- “Plan Puebla Panama Spotlight,” occasional column, Americas Policy. Interhemispheric Resource Center (June 2002 – September 2003)
- Series of twenty articles about Mexico, Nicaragua and Guatemala, ICWA Letters: Bulletin of the Institute of Current World Affairs. Crane-Rogers Foundation (June 2000 to June 2003) Including:
- “Farms vs. Factories: Planning the Future for the ‘Under-Exploited’ of Mexico and Central America,” Texas Observer, V94 #2. Texas Democracy Foundation (February 1, 2002)
- “Nicaragua’s agricultural frontier is on the march,” EcoAméricas: a monthly report on development and the environment in Latin America. Fourth Street Press (November 2001).
- “NAFTA Takes Over the Hemisphere? An interview with Carlos Beas Torres on the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas,” Dollars and Sense, #222. Economic Affairs Bureau (March/April 1999)
- Hunger for Justice Journalism Award, Grassroots International, November 2003
- Writing Residency, Blue Mountain Center, 2002
- Fellowship, Institute of Current World Affairs, May 2000 to June 2002
- B. Frank Vogel Scholar in Nonfiction, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, 2002
- Book Arts Scholarship, Penland School of Crafts, August 2002
- Jakobson Scholarship, Wesleyan Writers Conference, 2002
- “Best of the Web,” The Mexico Network, 2001
- Writing Residency, Vermont Studio Center, 1999
After a decade as a staff member for social change organizations in Seattle and Boston, Wendy Call has worked as a freelance editor and writer since 2000. She is writing a narrative nonfiction book entitled “No Word for Welcome: Mexican Villages Face the Future.”
wendycall@yahoo.com
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