Trinie Dalton
Trinie Dalton has authored, edited, and/or curated five books. Wide Eyed (Akashic) was a selection of Dennis Cooper’s Little House on the Bowery series and a finalist for The Believer book award. Dear New Girl or Whatever Your Name Is (McSweeney’s), co-edited with Lisa Wagner and Eli Horowitz, is an art book for which she transformed her archive of confiscated high school notes into a collaboration between fifty artists. Mythtym (Picturebox) is an art/fiction anthology based on mythological monsters and horror. Sweet Tomb (Madras Press) is a fairy tale novella. Two Dollar Radio will publish her next story collection, Baby Geisha, in January 2012.
Dalton writes critically about art, books, and music,and frequently contributes to artists’ book projects. She writes for numerous magazines and websites such as Bookforum, Artforum.com, The Believer, Modern Painters and Paper. She writes critical essays for artists’ monographs,most recently for Xylor Jane, Sue De Beer, Francesca Gabbiani and Matt Greene, and has written for exhibition catalogues such as the 2008 Whitney Biennial, New York Minute (JRP Ringier), and Vitamin 3D (Phaidon). Her journalism is sampled on www.sweettomb.com. She has taught creative writing and artists’ book courses, with an emphasis on independent publishing, at University of Southern California, Art Center College of Design, NYU, and Pratt Institute.
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