Ariana Reines is a poet, playwright, performing artist, and translator from Salem Massachusetts. Her books of poetry include A Sand Book (2019), winner of the 2020 Kingsley Tufts Prize, Mercury (2011), Coeur de Lion (2007), The Cow (2006), winner of the 2006 Alberta Prize. She wrote the Obie-winning play Telephone in 2009, and her translations include Baudelaire’s My Heart Laid Bare (2009), Jean-Luc Hennig’s The Little Black Book of Grisélidis Réal, Days and Nights of an Anarchist Whore (2009), and Tiqqun’s Preliminary Materials Toward a Theory of the Young-Girl (2012). Reines also wrote a long-running blog on tumblr.

She has taught poetry as the Mary Routt Chair at Scripps College, Roberta C. Holloway Lecturer at UC Berkeley, Visiting Professor of the Practice of Poetry at Tufts, Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Wichita, and Visiting Critic at Yale Sculpture. In 2012 she began a teaching series based on ancient texts called Ancient Evenings, and in March of 2020 she created Invisible College, an online space for poetry, art, and sacred studies.