Ariana Reines

Ariana Reines is an award-winning poet, Obie-winning playwright, performing artist, and translator. Her recent books include The Rose (2025), Wave of Blood (2024), and A Sand Book (2019), winner of the Kingsley Tufts Prize and longlisted for the National Book Award. She is the translator of TIQQUN's Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl and Jean-Luc Hennig's Little Black Book of Grisélidis Réal, both for Semiotext(e), and Baudelaire's My Heart Laid Bare, for Mal-O-Mar. Reines has created theatre and performance for Performance Space New York, The Whitney Museum, Works+Process at The Guggenheim, Stuart Shave / Modern Art, Le Mouvement Biel/Bienne, the Cherry Lane Theatre, and many others, and has given thousands of readings and master classes around the world. Her play Telephone has been been adapted and reimagined across the United States and Europe since 2009. In 2020, while a Divinity student at Harvard, Reines created Invisible College, a study hall for poetry, sacred texts, and the arts.