Ariana Reines is author of The Cow (2006), Coeur de Lion (2007) and Mercury (2011). Her play Telephone won several Obie awards. Reines was 2009 Roberta C. Holloway Lecturer in Poetry at the University of California Berkeley; she has taught master classes at Pomona College, the University of California Davis, and the University of Pittsburgh. She lives in New York, NY.
