Lindsey Wente (she/her) is a fiction and creative nonfiction writer from Minnesota. 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, where she was the nonfiction editor for The Tower. 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. From 2023-2025, she was a multi-genre reader and flash fiction editorial assistant for CRAFT. Currently, she works at Texas A&M University in the College of Performance, Visualization & Fine Arts where she supports artists of various mediums.

Sometimes Lindsey devises performance with her partner George McConnell. She devised and performed Anything At All in the Downtown Bryan Contemporary Performance Space Pop Up; 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.

She is a member of the Morning Writing Club and facilitated a weekend-long writing sprint this past June, and is planning to offer writers more durational writing practice tools. In May 2025, She was an Artist-in-Residence at Ghost Ranch in New Mexico. From August-September 2026, she wrote in her local dying mall. She is the curator and first Artist-in-Residence at the Post Oak Mall Artist Residency.