Wayne Koestenbaum is a poet, critic, and artist. 

His books include The Queen’s Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist; Jackie Under My Skin: Interpreting an Icon; My 1980s and Other Essays; Humiliation; Hotel Theory; The Pink Trance Notebooks; Camp Marmalade; and Figure It Out. He lives in New York City, where he is a Distinguished Professor of English at the CUNY Graduate Center. 

His website is waynekoestenbaum.com 

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