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Ariana Reines is a poet, playwright, and performing artist from Salem, Massachusetts and based in New York. Her books include A Sand Book (2019), winner of the 2020 Kingsley Tufts Award and longlisted for the National Book Award, Mercury, Coeur de Lion, and The Cow, which won the Alberta Prize from Fence in 2006. Her Obie-winning play Telephone was commissioned by The Foundry Theatre with a sold-out run at the Cherry Lane Theatre in 2009. Reines has created performances for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Swiss Institute, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, Le Mouvement Biel/Bienne, The Whitney Museum of American Art, and Performance Space New York. She has taught poetry at UC Berkeley (Holloway Poet), Columbia, NYU, and Scripps College (Mary Routt Chair), been a visiting critic at Yale School of Art, and for community organisations including The Poetry Project and Poets House. Her poetry and prose have been published in The New Yorker, Poetry, Artforum, Frieze, Harper's, and many others. In 2020, while a Divinity student at Harvard, Reines created Invisible College, an online space devoted to the study of poetry, sacred texts, and the arts.

Jane DeLynn is the author of the widely acclaimed novels Leash, Don Juan in the Village, and Some Do. Her novel Real Estate was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Her work has appeared in the Paris Review, Mademoiselle, Glamour, Harper’s Bazaar, the New York Times, New York Observer and Tikkun, and she lived in Saudi Arabia as a correspondent for Mirabella and Rolling Stone during the Gulf War. She is also the author of two plays, and wrote the libretto for the children's opera The Monkey Opera, composed by Roger Tréfousse, which premiered at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. She lives in Los Angeles.

Luce deLire is a ship with eight sails and she lays off the quay. A time traveller and collector of mediocre jokes by day, when night falls, she turns into a philosopher, performer and media theorist. She loves visual art, installations, video art, etc. She could be seen curating, performing, directing, planning and publishing (on) various events. She is working on and with the philosophy of treason, infinity, post-secularism, self-destruction, fascism and seduction – all in mixed media.

Henrike Kohpeiß is a philosopher working on social and political philosophy, critical theory, affect studies, black studies and feminist philosophy. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the CRC 'Affective Societies' at Free University, Berlin. Together with Philipp Wüschner, she hosts a monthly conversations on 'Feelings at the end of the world' at Volksbühne Berlin. Occasionally, she engages in artistic collaborations in dance and performance, mostly as a dramaturge or writer, sometimes as a performer. Bourgeois Coldness is her first book.