Ariana Reines was named one of Flavorwire's 100 best living writers and "a crucial voice of her generation" by Michael Silverblatt. Her books include The Cow (Alberta Prize, 2006), Coeur de Lion (2007), and Mercury (2011). Telephone (2009), her first play, received two Obie Awards; a Norwegian translation will premiere in Mollebyen, Norway in 2017. Art exhibitions include PUBIC SPACE (2016), a collaboration with Oscar Tuazon at Modern Art in London, UK and EXHAUST (2016) at Contemporary Art Tasmania, AU. Reines is the translator of Baudelaire’s My Heart Laid Bare (Mal-O-Mar, 2009) and others. She has taught at Columbia University, the European Graduate School, NYU, Tufts, Naropa, and The New School. In 2009 she was Roberta C. Holloway Lecturer in Poetry at the University of California-Berkeley.
In residence, she worked on a collection of poems about religious experience, genocide, diaspora, the wellness industry, and shopping.
