Kaelen Wilson-Goldie lives and works in Beirut. Wilson-Goldie is a writer and critic who earned a BA in English literature and international relations from the University of Virginia, an MS from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and an MA from the Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies at the American University of Beirut. She was a 2007 fellow in the USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Program in Los Angeles. Wilson-Goldie is a contributing editor for the magazine Bidoun and writes a column for Frieze. Besides that, she contributes regularly to Artforum and covers contemporary art and culture in a loosely defined region for the Lebanese newspaper The Daily Star. She has contributed essays to numerous journals, anthologies, monographs and exhibition catalogues, including: The Future of Tradition – The Tradition of Future (2010); Untitled Tracks: On Alternative Music in Beirut (2009); Foreword, the catalogue accompanying Lebanon’s first and only national pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2007); and Out of Beirut (2006).