WENDY WALKER

I was born in 1951 in New York City where I still live with my husband, the writer Tom La Farge. Major influences are world travel and the visual arts. I have been a teacher of studio art, art history and creative writing. I have also worked as visual consultant, advisor and curator with a number of galleries, including Art Awareness in Lexington, New York, the Kentler International Drawing Space in Brooklyn, and most recently at the Grady Alexis Gallery at El Taller Latino Americano in Manhattan. I helped found the Casa Angel at El Taller, which houses the permanent collection of visionary artist Angelo Romano. I am now working at Proteus Gowanus Gallery/Reading Room in Brooklyn, as the editor of Proteotypes, its new publishing venture.
My new book is an innovative history of the origins of Gothic literature in Jamaica and Haiti, called SEXUAL STEALING, portions of which I will present at &NOW at Chapman University in April 2008.

EDUCATION:
M.A., Art and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1974
A.B. cum laude, Harvard University, 1972

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
1995-99: Adjunct Associate Professor of Writing, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY.
May 1998: Resident lecturer at Universidad de la Laguna, La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.
May 1997: Fiction Workshop, Wildacres Retreat, Little Switzerland, NC
1995 and 1997: Fiction Workshop, Annual Summer Writers' Conference, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY.

FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS:
Grant from the Richard Lounsbery Foundation, 1999, for the research and writing of a book on Constance Kent and "the Great Crime of 1860."
Residency at Yaddo, January 1994.
NEH Seminar on Joseph Conrad, Union College, Schenectady, NY, July 1993.
MacDowell Colony Fellow, May 1993.

HONORS:
Member, Advisory Board, Masterworks of Fiction, Green Integer Press, published by Douglas Messerli, 2005-present.
Listed in Who’s Who of American Women, 1997-8.
Nominated for a National Book Award, 1995, for Stories Out of Omarie.
Gertrude Stein Award in Innovative American Poetry, 1994-5, for "My Man."
International Association of Fantasy Authors Crawford Award alternate, 1994,for The Secret Service.