Whitney Washington

Whitney Washington is a Black creative non-fiction writer based in Huntsville, Alabama. Washington writes essays about politics and culture in the South. They are a 2023 Periplus Fellow, and an alum of the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop and the Tin House Summer Workshop. Washington is currently in the Black Embodiments Studio’s Arts Writing Incubator. Their work has been published in Electric Literature, Reckon and Roxane Gay’s newsletter, The Audacity.

Articles (7)

Deciphering the Alabama Barn Quilt Trail, a travelogue

Schoolhouse

For Burnaway's SCHOOLHOUSE theme, Whitney Washington travels along the Alabama Barn Quilt Trail, reflecting on the traditional meaning-making behind quilt patterns and the tensions between identity, home, and history underlying the project.

New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations at the Frist Art Museum, Nashville

Reviews

Whitney Washington reviews the history and practice of ceremonial costuming in New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations at the Frist Art Museum, Nashville.

The Rosenbaum House in Florence, Alabama. Image by and courtesy of the Carol M. Highsmith Archive collection at the Library of Congress.

“This Section of the Country”: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Rosenbaum House

BA x Oxford American

In August’s co-publishing partnership with Oxford American, Whitney Washington explores the origins and crafted work of Frank Lloyd Wright's Rosenbaum House in Florence, Alabama.

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