Ariana Reines in Conversation

Ariana Reines is an award-winning poet, Obie-winning playwright, performing artist, and translator. Her recent books include The Rose, Wave of Blood, and A Sand Book, winner of the Kingsley Tufts Prize and longlisted for the National Book Award.

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.

Rebecca Harkins-Cross is a writer, cultural critic and lecturer in the creative writing program at RMIT University. Her work has been published widely in journals and periodicals across Australia and the world, including The Monthly, The Saturday Paper, Sydney Review of Books, Meanjin, Griffith Review, Island, LitHub and Art Das Kunstmagazin. She was a 2022 Fulbright Scholar at Columbia University’s Writing Program in New York City. Her debut book, The Headless Woman, is forthcoming with Fireflies Press.