A. Kendra Greene is a writer and artist who has worked at the Chicago History museum, the University of Iowa museum and the Dallas Museum of art, where was a writer in residence. She holds an MFA in nonfiction and a graduate certificate in book arts from the University of Iowa, and she lives in Dallas where she is a visiting assistant professor at the University of Texas.
Greene’s latest book is The Museum of Whales You’ll Never See, a collection of essays and drawings recounting her excursions to some of the most unusual museums in Iceland including the Icelandic Phallological Museum, which boasts a collection of penises from every mammal known to exist in the country and the Museum of Icelandic Sorcery and Witchcraft.
Greene is the first of this year’s Visiting Writers at Eastern Washington University. She’ll be hosting a virtual event, open to the public on Friday, November 13th at 7:30 p.m.