Mary Katharine Tramontana is an American artist, poet, journalist and the author of Serious Pleasures: Poems of Lust and Longing (2024). Her next book LUST, co-written with Erika Lust, is forthcoming in the US (Holt), UK, France, Italy, Spain, Catalonia, and Germany (Fall 2026). She’s exhibited internationally and had two solo shows in Berlin recommended by Fotografiska, with her book and show Serious Pleasures (2024-2025) featured on Art Daily, DAZED, Erotic Review, and Photography Now. She’s co-curated and collaborated on exhibitions with cultural institutions like Reina Sofía, the Spanish Film Archive, WILZIG Museum, Schwules Museum, silent green, Arsenal Institute, Academy of Arts Berlin, and others. 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. A Frieze Academy arts writing bursary recipient, she’s also worked as a sex research assistant at Kinsey Institute. This spring she was writer-in-residence at Villa Lena Foundation in Tuscany. Her practice has also been supported by residencies at Eastern Frontier Foundation on Norton Island, ARTS Southeast and Sulfur Studios in Savannah, and Isla de Creur in Spain. After living in New York City and Australia, she now lives in Berlin for the past 13 years.