Rachael Guynn Wilson

Rachael Guynn Wilson is a writer, editor, and teacher living in Brooklyn. She is the editor of 16 Poems for Philip Guston by Clark Coolidge (Container Corps, 2022) and co-editor of Executive Orders (punctum books, 2025). Her critical and poetic work has appeared in A propósito de nada / Apropos of Nothing (Aeromoto + Wendy’s Subway), apricota (Secretary Press), The Baffler, BathHouse Journal, Brooklyn Rail, Chicago Review, The Distance Plan, Evening Will Come (The Volta), Hyperallergic, Jacket2, Kenyon Review Online, Matters of Feminist Practice (Belladonna* Series), Ritual and Capital (Bard + Wendy’s Subway), Vestiges, and elsewhere. She is a co-founder of the Organism for Poetic Research, a member of Belladonna* Collaborative, and Managing Editor at Litmus Press. She holds a Ph.D. in English from New York University and teaches at Pratt Institute in the Fifth Year Architecture Writing Program.

PhD, 2016, English, New York University

MA, 2012, English, New York University

BA, 2004, History, Oregon State University

Executive Orders (punctum books, 2025)

16 Poems for Philip Guston by Clark Coolidge (Container Corps, 2022)

Matters of Feminist Practice (Belladonna* Series, 2020)

“Review of Anna Gurton-Wachter’s Utopia Pipe Dream Memory” (Chicago Review, 2021)

“Critical Vagrancy: On Reading with Elaine Freedgood” (Victorian Literature and Culture, 2019)

“A Poetry of Attention: On Crosslight for Youngbird by Asiya Wadud” (Kenyon Review Online, 2018)

“Collocations on the Plane: Clark Coolidge and Philip Guston’s Poem-Pictures” (Textual Practice, 2018)

“Reinventing Provisional Painting as Impure Abstraction Out of Bounds” (Most Perfect World, 2015)

“Clark Coolidge’s Cave Art” (Jacket2, 2015)