Wendy A. Gaudin

Wendy A. Gaudin is a historian, vernacular beadworker, and interdisciplinary writer whose work centers Southern-descended and mixed-race populations and histories. She writes creative nonfiction, autoethnography, oral history, and poetry. She is an Associate Professor of History at Xavier University of Louisiana. Her first prose book, Sunset Limited: An Autobiography of Creole (LSU Press, 2025), is listed among her work. At A Studio in the Woods she is working on a second prose book, tentatively titled Barbara Ann: A Life, Recovered.