Wendy S. Walters is the author of Multiply/Divide: On the American Real and Surreal; Troy, Michigan; and A Dead White: An Argument Against White Paint. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Harper’s Magazine, The Yale Review, BOMB, and others. She is a recipient of fellowships from Creative Capital, The Architectural League of New York, New York Foundation for the Arts, and Mass MoCA. For The Metropolitan Museum of Art, she cocurated the exhibition Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux Recast. She is an associate professor of nonfiction in the Creative Writing Program of the School of the Arts at Columbia University.

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