Description

• Regional, Midwestern appeal: Wallschlaeger has lived and worked in Wisconsin her whole life
• Wallschlaeger’s work speaks to timely national conversations about systemic racism, misogynoir, and the Black woman’s experience in the United States
• Nikki Wallschlaeger has an artist book titled Operation USA through Container, which was acquired by Woodland Pattern Book Center. As part of the project, Nikki created an adapted version of the board game Operation, featuring “Uncle Sam” on the operating table.
• Wallschlaeger was a visiting assistant professor of poetry at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop from 2021–2022 and editor of Protean Magazine
• Potential audiences: Readers from the Midwest, specifically residents of Wisconsin; women exploring the power of desire and femininity, particularly Black women because Wallschlaeger often applies Black feminist principles; social justice- and anticapitalist-oriented readers; readers interested in poetry that plays with language and structure.