From “‘SHRINE’: A Little Book About Paul Thek”

V. H. Wildman is a writer, critic, teacher, and editor. He holds an MFA in creative writing from Brown University and an MA in philosophy, with a concentration in aesthetics, from the University of Miami. His writing has appeared in the Encyclopedia Project, volume 2, coedited by Tisa Bryant, and Hyperallergic. The recipient of the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction, he is the author of “Shrine”: A Little Book About Paul Thek, and is currently working on his second novel, People Who Died Alone, as well as several other projects, including a long essay about art and habitation. Wildman’s interests include modern and contemporary visual art, modernist literature, music and film, critical theory, feminism, and African American abstraction as a critical mode of resistance. Find him at his blog, marginalamericannotes.com.