Wesley has recently been shortlisted by The Master’s Review Prize for Emerging Writers. She graduated from the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson in January 2023. This was a return, as she studied fiction in the early 90s at Johns Hopkins before accepting a job with National Public Radio, with the perhaps unrealistic hope that she would write many novels on her lunch break. She worked in radio for many years–for various programs at NPR, primarily as the producer of Talk of the Nation, which earned her team two Alfred DuPont Silver Batons, for on-location coverage of South Africa elections (1994) and for “The Republican Revolution” (1995), and as development producer of Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me; for Australian Broadcasting (Australia Talks Back), for the BBC (Talk of New York); and for a number of independent shows and special projects (Savvy Traveller, The Infinite Mind, Can You Top This? and The Next Big Thing). While she has produced many stories for radio, she has just begun to send out short stories for publication. She is a reader for The Common, a Literary Magazine. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, her dog and cat and often her children, who are not quite out of the nest.