Wayne Koestenbaum

Wayne Koestenbaum performing at The Kitchen in New York City

Wayne Koestenbaum (born 1958) is an American artist, poet, and cultural critic. He received an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature in 2020.[1] He has published over 20 books to date.[2]

Koestenbaum works as a Distinguished Professor of English, French, and Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center, where he teaches poetry, and teaches painting at Yale University.[3][4] He lives and works in New York City.

  1. ^ "Graduate Art Seminar: Wayne Koestenbaum". ArtCenter College of Design. Retrieved 2021-04-28.
  2. ^ "Wayne Koestenbaum". Nightboat Books. Retrieved 2021-04-28.
  3. ^ "WAYNE KOESTENBAUM". The Graduate Center. CUNY. Retrieved 13 May 2020.[dead link]
  4. ^ Als, Hilton (18 April 2016). "Immediate Family". The New Yorker. Condé Nast. Retrieved 13 May 2020. 'She found a friendship with her instabilities and turned it immediately into questions that are dazzled, rather than narcotized,' the writer Wayne Koestenbaum, with whom Nelson studied at cuny, told me.