Wayne Salazar is an artist and writer whose photographs, films, and paintings have been exhibited internationally. His film, Destroying Angel, and book, Open Closets, are in the collections of major museums and university libraries. He is a contributing critic for Artforum.com and his writing on environmental issues appears on Earthjustice.org and AIDA-americas.org. He studied creative writing at Cornell University, earned a BFA from the School of Visual Arts, and earned an MFA from Hunter College.