Wayne Koestenbaum—poet, critic, novelist, artist, performer—has published nineteen books, including The Queen's Throat, which was praised by Susan Sontag as '“a brilliant book” and was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. Formerly Associate Professor of English at Yale and Visiting Professor in the Yale School of Art's painting department, he is Distinguished Professor of English, French, and Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City.