Rachael Guynn Wilson

Rachael Guynn Wilson is the author of The Karen Horney Progressions (The Diagram / New Michigan Press, 2026), 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), and elsewhere. She is a co-founder of the Organism for Poetic Research, a member of Belladonna* Collaborative, and an editor-at-large at Litmus Press. She holds a Ph.D. in English from New York University and teaches at Pratt Institute in the First- and Fifth-Year Architecture Writing Programs.

She previously taught at New York University in the Department of English (2015-17) and the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication (2015-18) and at the School of Visual Arts in the Department of Humanities & Sciences (2017-22) and the Visual and Critical Studies Program (2019-21). She has experience teaching undergraduate and graduate English-language learners through her teaching in “Speaking Freely,” a non-credit ELL conversation program at NYU (2014-15) and through her work as a Writing Tutor in the SVA Writing Center (2017-20). In 2024 she served as a mentor for the Center for Book Arts’ Small Press Incubator program. Her research interests are in modern and contemporary poetry, avant-garde arts and poetics, intermedia collaboration, minor literatures and microhistories.

PhD, 2016, English, New York University

MA, 2012, English, New York University

BA, 2004, History, Oregon State University

The Karen Horney Progressions (DIAGRAM/New Michigan Press, 2026)

Book review: “‘the thousandth bold uncertainty’: Skeptical Poetics in Lyn Hejinian’s Lola the Interpreter,” (Tripwire 23, 2026)

Executive Orders (punctum books, 2025)

“Critical Making: Book Arts & Small Press Production,” (Center for Book Arts lecture, Oct. 31, 2024)

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)