Wendy Clayton has taught English and has been involved in poetry magazines and published in some, namely, The North, A Pennine Platform, A Pennine Anthology, Indigo Dreams, Shearsman, Osiris, The International Times, The Fortnightly Review, and Tears in the Fence. In 2022 she participated in the poetry summer short course with Michael Schmidt and John McAuliffe and was highly commended – 150 out of 15,000 – for the Erbacce poetry prize in August. Her book, Twinship and Consciousness, was published in October 2021.

Wendy Clayton's work featured in Stand Magazine comprises two contributions of poetry, over a period of two years.