Lindsey Wente is a fiction and creative nonfiction writer and educator living in Texas. Her work has appeared in Catapult, Hobart, Under the Gum Tree, on The Rose Books Hotline, and in other publications. Her micro-chapbook, A Year in My Mother’s Basement, was released in 2021 as part of the Ghost City Press Summer Series.

She studied English and Theatre Arts at The University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. In 2021, she received her MFA in creative writing from University of New Hampshire where she served as the creative nonfiction editor for Barnstorm Journal and received the Young Dawkins III Prize for best thesis. She is currently a multi-genre reader and flash fiction editorial assistant for CRAFT, and works at Texas A&M University.

When Lindsey is not writing, she makes performance art and devised theater. She performed in swim team at The Minnesota Fringe Festival and the INVERSE Performance Art Festival at The Momentary in Bentonville, AK. In 2024, she toured FUCK YEAH in four major US cities and lived in a van for a week. Her favorite space is the intersection between theater and writing.