Wayne Koestenbaum is a poet, novelist, and cultural critic.
His publications include the nonfiction books Hotel Theory, Andy Warhol, Jackie Under My Skin, Double Talk, The Queen's Throat, and Cleavage: Essays on Sex, Stars and Aesthetics; the novel Moira Orfei in Aigues-Mortes, and the poetry collections Best-Selling Jewish Porn Films, Model Homes, The Milk of Inquiry, Rhapsodies of a Repeat Offender, and Ode to Anna Moffo and Other Poems.
Koestenbaum won a Whiting Writer’s Award in 1994.
He is a Distinguished Professor of English at the CUNY Graduate Center and a Visiting Professor in the Painting Department of the Yale School of Art.
Koestenbaum has been a participant in the 2005, 2006, and 2007 PEN World Voices Festivals. He also participated in the PEN Twentieth Century Masters Tribute to Gertrude Stein, excerpts of which were published in PEN America 5: Silences. "Wayward Surmises," an essay in five-word lines about Andy Warhol and Sunset Boulevard, was published in PEN America 9: Checkpoints.
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