Mary Katharine Tramontana is an American artist, poet, journalist and the author of Serious Pleasures: Poems of Lust and Longing (2024). She’s exhibited internationally and had two solo shows in Berlin reccomended by Fotografiska, with her show Serious Pleasures (2024-2025), featured on Art Daily, DAZED, and Erotic Review, and Photography Now. She’s collaborated 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 cultural dialoge. The recipient of a Frieze bursary, she’s also worked as a sex research assistant at Kinsey Institute. This spring she is writer-in-residence at Villa Lena in Tuscany, speaking about her work and writing LUST: Porn, Power, Pleasure, co-written with Erika Lust and forthcoming in the US, UK, France, Italy, Spain, Catalonia, and Germany (fall 2026). After living in New York City and Australia, she now lives in Berlin for the past 13 years.