Mary Katharine Tramontana is an American artist, poet, journalist and the author of Serious Pleasures: Poems of Lust and Longing (2024). She’s exhibited photogaphy internationally, and her first solo show in Berlin, Serious Pleasures (2024-2025), was profiled by Dazed and went viral. She’s collaborated with cultural institutions like Reina Sofía, the Spanish Film Archive, WILZIG Museum, silent green, Arsenal Institute, Academy of Arts Berlin, and others. She writes about sexual politics and culture for The New York Times, Women’s Health, Esquire, Playboy, The Guardian, The Atlantic, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and others. The recipient of a Frieze arts writing bursary, she’s also worked as a sex research assistant at Kinsey Institute. This spring she’ll be in residence at Villa Lena in Tuscany to speak about her work and write the non-fiction book, LUST: Porn, Power, Pleasure, co-written with Erika Lust and published in the US, UK, France, Italy, Spain, Catalonia, and Germany. After living in New York City and Australia, she now lives in Berlin for the past 13 years.