Ariana Reines

Ariana Reines (born 1982) is an American poet, playwright, performance artist, and translator. Her books of poetry include The Cow (2006), which won the Alberta Prize from Fence Books; Coeur de Lion (2007); Mercury (2011); Thursday (2012) and A Sand Book (2019), which was longlisted for the National Book Award. She has taught at UC Berkeley, Columbia University (2013), The New School (2013), and Tufts University (2014). Reines has been described by Michael Silverblatt of NPR's Bookworm as "one of the crucial voices of her generation." She describes the subject matter of her work as "bearing witness to the search for the sacred in the 21st century."