Esther Kondo Heller

Esther Kondo Heller is a poet, literary critic, and experimental sound- and filmmaker. They are a Barbican Young Poet, an Obsidian Foundation Fellow, a Ledbury Critic, and an Image Text Ithaca Junior Fellow. They have an MFA in creative writing from Cornell University and are a first-year PhD student in comparative literature at Harvard University, where they are working on transnational Black poetics and translating the poetry of Black German poet Raja Lubinetzki.