Wendy Besel Hahn lives and writes in Denver, Colorado. She is most interested in how geography, religion, and historical events shape female characters, both in fiction and nonfiction. A Westerner at heart, she spent 22 years living in the Metro Washington D.C. area which increased her passion for writing about politics and social justice.

She is the nonfiction editor for Grit & Gravity (May 2025), Grace in Love (May 2023) and Furious Gravity (May 2020), anthologies featuring female writers from the D.C. area. She frequently contributes to Washington Independent Review of Book. Hahn spent three weeks in residency at Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in November 2024. She attended Bread Loaf in 2016 and earned an MFA from George Mason University in 2008. Her work appears in The Washington Post, HuffPost, Scary Mommy, Hippocampus, Sojourners, and elsewhere.