Wendy S. Walters

WENDY S. WALTERS is the author of A Dead White: An Argument Against White Paint (Scribner); the essay collection Multiply/Divide: On the American Real and Surreal; and the poetry collection Troy, Michigan. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Harper’s Magazine, The Yale Review, Bomb, and others. She has received fellowships from Creative Capital, The Architectural League of New York, NYFA, and Mass MoCA. For The Metropolitan Museum of Art, she co-curated the exhibition Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux Recast, which was called “a master class in presenting complicated, troubling art.” She is an associate professor of nonfiction in the Writing Program of the School of the Arts at Columbia University.