Kendra Greene is a writer and book artist based in Dallas. She is the author and illustrator of The Museum of Whales You Will Never See, first published by Penguin and Granta, and now translated into German and French. With publications from Atlas Obscura to Zyzzyva, her work has been presented at the Smithsonian, exhibited at The Reading Room, collected as far away as Qatar, and supported by fellowships from Fulbright, MacDowell, and the Library Innovation Lab at Harvard. Tin House will unleash a collection of her essays in curiosity, No Less Strange or Wonderful, in Winter 2025.

At the Library, Greene will be working on a nonfiction book-length project on Hell, or l’enfer.

In response to the high number of outstanding candidates for the Library’s annual Visiting Fellowship program, the Selection Committee has created the Scholar of Note distinction to acknowledge particularly exceptional applicants. The distinction was founded in 2022.

The Scholar of Note program is made possible through the generous support of The de Groot Foundation.