Wendi Loomis received a Bachelor of Arts in Acting, Playwriting, & Musical Theatre from Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA. Since 1997 she has been a performance educator for Poetry Alive! She has also worked with the Greenville Metropolitan Arts Council's SmartArts Arts Integration program since 2004. She has been showcased performing her own poetry at a wide variety of events and venues across the country. Since moving to North Carolina she has performed with Tryon Little Theatre, Diana Wortham Theatre, and ACT's 35below in addition to playing & singing traditional jazz with some of her favorite Rhythm Rascals and sitting in on clarinet with the ragtime blues band The Screaming J's.