Wayne Koestenbaum’s publications include works of nonfiction such as Andy Warhol and Cleavage: Essays on Sex, Stars and Aesthetics, the novel Moira Orfei in Aigues-Mortes, and four books of poetry: 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 Professor of English at the CUNY Graduate Center and a Visiting Professor in the Painting Department of the Yale School of Art.