Wanda Morrow Clevenger is a Carlinville, Illinois, native. She has published over 334 pieces of work in 126 print and electronic publications. Her debut book This Same Small Town in Each of Us released in 2011. After a daunting 9-month illness beginning in mid-2013 caused by and followed-up with a 2-year medical mishandling avalanche, all of which became the catalyst for a boatload of poetry and micro nonfiction, a full-length poetry manuscript was completed and is currently under publication consideration.