Wendy Willis graduated magna cum laude from Georgetown University School of Law and now serves as executive director of the Deliberative Democracy Consortium, a national organization of "more than 50 foundations, nonprofit organizations, and universities, collaborating to support research activities and advance democratic practice in North America and around the world." Her first book is Blood Sisters of the Republic (Press 53, 2012), and she has published essays and poems in Utne Reader, ZYZZYVA, Poetry Northwest, The Rumpus, and elsewhere.
