A. Kendra Greene is the author and illustrator of The Museum of Whales You Will Never See, first published by Penguin and Granta, and now translated into German and French. With publications from Atlas Obscura to Zyzzyva, her research and book arts work has been presented at the Smithsonian, exhibited at The Reading Room, and collected as far away as Qatar. Greene was the 2022 Ralph A. Johnston Memorial Fellow at the Dobie Paisano ranch, and was a 2023 Visiting Writer in Nonfiction at UNC.
While at MacDowell in 2022, she composed text-and-image essays for an illuminated bestiary. An essay from that book project was published in 2018 in The Normal School, another is forthcoming in 2022 in Freeman's. Inspired by the MacDowell picnic baskets’ paper ephemera, she also wrote and bound an artist book. In 2024, she completed edits and made more than 20 drawings to turn in as the last pass of her forthcoming illuminated book of essays to Tin House. No Less Strange or Wonderful is slated to be published March 4, 2025. She will next research l'Enfer (hell) as a Scholar of Note at the American Library in Paris.
