"The Pull of It, Wendy J. Fox’s first novel, is palliative care for the neurotic American attachment to routines of housekeeping, childrearing, and career building." - Patrick Thomas Henry
"Wendy J. Fox makes us wonder what is better than being home. She takes us back to our primitive state of needing security, of wanting to know that we belong and that we belong nowhere else. She tells us to never settle for anything else than what we hope to be true." - JMWW
"Her stories are crafted jewels: elegant, glittering, cutting."
- Necessary Fiction
"Wendy J. Fox makes us wonder what is better than being home. She takes us back to our primitive state of needing security, of wanting to know that we belong and that we belong nowhere else. She tells us to never settle for anything else than what we hope to be true." - JMWW
"Her stories are crafted jewels: elegant, glittering, cutting."
- Necessary Fiction
Wendy j. Fox
Wendy J. Fox’s tough, wise novel tells a poignant story of one woman’s struggle to tame the contradictions of family and freedom, habit and impulse, obligation and desire. 'The Pull of It' walks a wire of exquisite tension between the things that pull us home and those that pull us away. —Shawn Vestal, author of Daredevils
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“Whether she's writing the Rockies or the Cascades, Seattle or Spokane, Colorado or Washington state, Wendy J. Fox has made the West her religion. In eleven gorgeous stories, she celebrates that faith—and these places, and their people—with a quiet, unattenuated grace.” — David James Poissant, author of The Heaven of Animals
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Wendy J. Fox is the author of the collection, "The Seven Stages of Anger & Other Stories (Press 53), the novel The Pull of It (Underground Voices), and the forthcoming novel, If The Ice Had (Santa Fe Writers Project, spring of 2019).
She received her MFA from Eastern Washington University, and her work has been published or is forthcoming in many literary reviews, websites, and blogs as detailed in the Fiction and Non-Fiction sections of this website. You can contact her here, or via Twitter. |
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