Wendy S. Walters' early career majored on poetry but as her writing career continued she found herself getting drawn more and more towards non-fiction. Her 2015 collection Multiply/Divide: On the American Real and Surreal asked questions about how we can look at our present when we have so much trouble understanding our past. She's still looking for answers, particularly in an age of competing narratives that sometimes seem to have only a fleeting relationship with the 'facts' they claim to be based on.
Walters is an associate professor of writing and design at Parsons, The New School, in New York and this year is a visiting associate professor of writing at Columbia University. She's currently in Wellington as an International Visiting Scholar at Massey University. She's also here for a fact finding trip for the NonfictionNOW conference taking place in Wellington in December next year and doing some preview events.
Photo: Verb Wellington
