Since moving to Alaska in 1981, Wendy Withrow has: played guitar and sung regularly at the Renaissance faire, Anchorage Folk Festival, and Downtown Market; acted in numerous Alaska Ove-

nighters and one UAA Mainstage production; had a full-length play in Play Lab at the 2000 Last Frontier Theatre Festival; won the 2009 Radical Arts for Women short story contest; and—most importantly—raised a fine daughter, who performed with her at RenFaire and organized the first poetry slam ever at Bates College.