Monika Rinck lives in Berlin and Cologne. She has been publishing poems, essays, and translations with various publishers since 1998. Her most recent publication is the poetry collection HÖLLENFAHRT & ENTENSTAAT. Since April 2023, she has been teaching as a professor of creative writing at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne. She has received the Roswitha Prize, the Jandl Prize, and the Kleist Prize, among others. In November 2024, she gave the Zurich Poetry Lectures, and in January 2025, she held the DAAD Chair of Contemporary Poetics at New York University. For nearly three decades, Monika Rinck has investigated language and concepts through the Begriffsstudio, an ongoing practice of artistic and poetic research.