Wendy Ranan is a poet and psychotherapist in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is an alumnus of Boston University. Ranan worked for years at a psychiatric hospital just outside of Boston that at one time housed such poets as Robert Lowell, Anne Sexton, and Sylvia Plath.
Ranan published in magazines like Crazy Horse, AGNI, The Seattle Review, The Poetry Miscellany, and Tendril, and in 1982 came out with her chapbook Inside Out, published by State Street Press.