Wendy Ralph is an instructor at the University of South Carolina, the new nonfiction editor of Yemassee literary journal, and a Ph.D. candidate in 20th Century American Literature. Wendy writes a weekly blog for the University of South Carolina Arts Institute and publishes both fiction and creative nonfiction. Her most recent publications can be found in Upstreet, Vol. 5 and Yemassee Vol. XVI, No. 2. Wendy was recently one of two nonfiction writers in the nation to be awarded a full scholarship to the prestigious New York State Writer's Institute in Saratoga Springs, NY, her story "Waiting" was a shortlist finalist for Wasafiri's "New Writing" prize in October of 2009, and This Side of Neverland, was a semifinalist in the Faulkner Wisdom Contest's "Novel in Progress" category in 2009. A selection from This Side of Neverland was also a finalist in the Iron Horse "Single Author Collection Competition" in 2010 and Wendy's "Left Behind" (featured in Upstreet Vol. 5) is nominated for inclusion in the 2010 issue of The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses Anthology.Wendy was recently awarded the "Cile Moise" Award for teaching excellence from the University of South Carolina's First-Year English Program and the Rhude M. Patterson Trustee Fellowship from the University of South Carolina Graduate School. Wendy's novella "Diary of a Darling" is currently a Finalist in the 2010 William Faulkner-Faulkner Wisdom Competition and her essay "Rewriting Wendy" is forthcoming in the Vexed Encounters with Nineteenth Century Fiction Anthology.