Carey Wallace
Author | Musician
Carey Wallace was raised in small towns in Michigan, and graduated cum laude from Princeton University with a degree in creative writing. Her debut novel, The Blind Contessa's New Machine, was published by Viking/Penguin in 2010, and received positive reviews in The New York Times, Boston Globe, and Publishers Weekly. Her work has appeared in Oasis, SPSM&H, Businessweek, Detroit's MetroTimes and quarrtsiluni, which she guest-edited in 2008.
She is a founder of the Working Artists Initiative for the International Arts Movement, which helps emerging artists establish strong creative habits, of the Zoae Series, a New York arts showcase which she directed until 2008, and of the event-based Lost City Gallery, which has connected young artists with patrons in both New York and Detroit. She is a photographer with Detroit Safari, which has documented Detroit's vulnerable abandoned landmarks annually since 2003.
She and her brother have released six albums as The Wallace Bros., and she has also released a solo album of her own songs, Waltzes and Lullabies. Eloise, an independent film for which she wrote the screenplay, received a silver medal at the Houston International Film Festival. In 2000, she founded an annual arts retreat, The Hillbilly Underground, which draws nationally-recognized filmakers, writers, fine artists, and musicians to rural Michigan each summer. She lives and works in Brooklyn.
