Ariana Reines is an award-winning poet, Obie-winning playwright, performing artist, and translator. Ariana’s books include A Sand Book (Tin House), winner of the 2020 Kingsley Tufts Prize & longlisted for the National Book Award, The Cow (Fence Books), winner of the Alberta Prize, Couer De Lion (Mal-o-Mar), Mercury (Fence Books), and The Origin of the World (Semiotext(e)). Her Obie-winning  play TELEPHONE was commissioned by The Foundry Theatre & has been performed & published in Norwegian translation (2017) and at KW Berlin (2018) among others.