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Wendy Jenkins lived for most of her life in Fremantle, Western Australia. She studied Social Work at the WA Institute of Technology (now Curtin University) and was employed for a time as a psychiatric social worker with the Western Australian Mental Health Services. She also worked as an Art Gallery Supervisor and an arts consultant.

Jenkins began writing poetry in 1979, and her literary roles included work as a publisher's editor, a manuscript editor and a creative writing teacher. Jenkins also edited editions of the literary journal Salt.

She was an editor with Fremantle Arts Centre Press (now Fremantle Press), where she found A. B. Facey's A Fortunate Life in the submissions pile.

She died suddenly in December 2022.