Wendy S. Walters is the author of Multiply/Divide: On the American Real and Surreal; Troy, Michigan; Longer I Wait, More You Love Me, and the forthcoming, A Dead White: An Argument Against White Paint. For The Metropolitan Museum of Art, she co-curated the exhibition Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux Recast which was called “a masterclass in presenting complicated, troubling art.” She also co-edited the volume Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux's Why Born Enslaved! Reconsidered. Her work has recently received support from Creative Capital; NYSCA and The Architectural League of New York; and Mass MoCA. She has written for a wide range of publications, including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Yale Review, Harper’s and others, on subjects ranging from local history to objects to books and opera. Walters is associate professor of nonfiction in the Writing Program of the School of the Arts at Columbia University.