Calvin Walds is a MFA candidate in cross-genre writing at UCSD. His work with 20th-century painter Beauford Delaney is part of a project on black abstraction and practices of relational fugitivity. He has received fellowships from The Watering Hole and Callaloo Journal. His writing has appeared in The Felt, Moko: Caribbean Arts and Letters, Coldnoon: Travel Poetics, and Hyperallergic.