Mary Katharine Tramontana is an American artist, poet, writer, and journalist. The author of Serious Pleasures: Poems of Lust and Longing (2024) — a Dazed “best photo story of 2025” — and Do not write poems likening his body to god (2025) — a book-length poem being adapted to an ErikaLustFilm (2026), she is co-author of Lust: Pleasure, Performance, Power forthcoming fall 2026 from Henry Holt & Co., and also in the UK (Bonnier), France (Le Cherche Midi), Italy (Il Saggiatore), Spain (Debate), Catalonia (Manifest Llibres), and Germany (TBD). Her poetry has appeared in or is forthcoming in California Quarterly, Dazed, and Erotic Review, and her writing on sexual politics and culture for The New York Times, Women’s Health, Esquire, Playboy, The Guardian, The Atlantic, and The Los Angeles Review of Books has sparked ongoing international cultural dialogue. She’s exhibited photography internationally and had three solo shows in Berlin, two recommended by Fotografiska. She’s contributed to contemporary models of sexual response as a sexuality research assistant fellow at the Kinsey Institute, and holds a Master of Arts in English Literature, Language and Culture from Freie Universität Berlin and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Gender Studies from Indiana University. The recipient of a Frieze Academy arts writing grant, her practice has also been supported by residencies at Matulov grunt in Croatia (2026); Ways in Hungary (2026); Villa Lena Foundation in Tuscany (2025); Isla de Creur in Spain (2024); ARTS Southeast (2023) and Eastern Frontier Foundation (2022) in the US. After living in New York City and Sydney, she lives in Berlin.