WENDY S. WALTERS

Books

A Dead White: An Argument Against White Paint (out 10/13/26)
Multiply/Divide: On the American Real and Surreal
Troy, Michigan
Longer I Wait, More You Love Me

Seeds of Diaspora, ed. with Lynnette Widder (out 10/6/26)
Fictions of Emancipation, ed. with Elyse Nelson

Upcoming Readings and Events

10/13/26 Book Culture. New York, NY.
10/20/26 Riffraff. Providence, RI.
10/21/26 Rizzoli Bookstore. New York, NY.
10/23/26 Harvard Bookstore. Boston, MA.

Essays

“White Houses” in BOMB
“Taming the ‘Howling Infinite’: ‘Moby-Dick’ Comes to the Met’s Stage” in The New York Times
“You Are Pip” in Ocean State Review.
“Soup Can: Or, on Hospitality” in The Yale Review.

Collaborations

Walters lyrical work with composer Derek Bermel has been performed internationally for more than two decades, including at Carnegie Hall, Joe’s Pub, Louisiana Museum for Moderne Kunst in Denmark, The Institute for Advanced Study, the Pittsburgh Symphony among many others.

In a sustained collaboration with Elyse Nelson, Walters co-curated the exhibition, Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux Recast, at The Met. They edited a collection of essays as a companion to the show, titled Fictions of Emancipation: Reconsidering Carpeaux’s Why Born Enslaved! (The Met/Yale University Press).