Wendy Newell Dyer is a citizen of the Passamaquoddy Nation. She has worked as a freelance writer/photographer; written for the Maine Coalition to Fight Prostate Cancer and appeared in one of their educational videos; had her stories featured in publications that include Dawnland Voices, Chicken Soup for the Soul and Homeschooling Today; and testified about her adoption before the Maine Truth and Reconciliation Commission. She is a winner of the 2022 MWPA Call for Native Writers and a 2022 Ashley Bryan Fellow. Wendy is a teacher for Wayfinder Schools in Washington County. She has three sons, four grandsons and a black lab named Jack.