Kendra Greene is the author and illustrator of The Museum of Whales You Will Never See, and the forthcoming modern bestiary No Less Strange or Wonderful. She became an essayist during a Fulbright grant in South Korea, completed her MFA at the University of Iowa, and in between has been lucky to research within any number of collecting institutions and work for years at a time with the Museum of Contemporary Photography, University of Iowa Museum of Natural History, Dallas Museum of Art, and Nasher Sculpture Center. This Fall she is both a MacDowell Fellow and an American Library in Paris Scholar of Note.