Wendy Wuyts is a serial rooter and a pilgrim – moving through changing landscapes in a state of wonder.
A pilgrim sets out with a question and a nominal destination, but it is the journey and relation building that matter more. Along the way, she gathers seeds and stories for re-enchantment, leaving them in the places she passes, for others to tend and grow.
Originally from Belgium, Wendy has lived and worked in Norway since 2021, after chapters in the Czech Republic, Austria, Thailand, and three years in Japan, where she earned a PhD in Environmental Studies at Nagoya University.
A certified forest therapy guide, she has led live and virtual nature-based experiences in Japan, the USA, Belgium, and Norway. Her invitations—often in partnership with plants—deepen participants’ awareness of their kinship with the more-than-human world.
Wendy writes in Dutch and English, with work published in Uneven Earth, Ecozon, MO Magazine, and the anthology Educational Fabulations.
As part of the Flemish Writers Programme (2020–2023), she developed her ecofiction, set in the Japanese satoyama—a liminal, ecotonal space—experimenting with non-human characters and weaving together feminist critique, solarpunk visions, and posthumanist thought. You can learn more here: Fictie boeken (Dutch).
She curates woodwidewebstories.com, a platform for blogs on human–plant assemblages, and welcomes guest voices exploring their own connections to nature.
In parallel, she works part-time in academia, contributing as a socio-environmental systems scientist to EU-funded projects, and co-organizes symposia in the Nordic–Baltic region through the Nordic Summer University, focusing on transformative learning with and within the more-than-human world.
Inspired by Zen pilgrims like Bashō—who carried a bag, a question, and a readiness for the next question—Wendy walks with inquiries into oikos (homecoming), economy, ecomythology, ecotones, and ecopsychology. Her path is both practical and poetic, rooted and wandering.
Stories from the Wood Wide Web 