Sasha Stiles is a first-generation Kalmyk-American poet and artist whose work bridges tradition and innovation through hybrid poetics, generative imagination, and collaborative intelligence. Her transmedia practice reframes poetry as both art and technology — a means of encoding human experience across space and time — and blends text, image, and algorithm to explore the role of human voice in a digital age.

Since 2018, Stiles has been at the forefront of human-machine co-creation, probing the promise and peril of creative technologies like machine learning and blockchain. Her experiments and insights have established her as a leading voice in the global conversation about the future of art, technology, and humanity. From Technelegy (2021) — a groundbreaking poetry collection co-authored with a personalized AI model and praised by Ray Kurzweil — to award-winning projects like “Cursive Binary” and “Repetae,” Stiles continually pushes the boundaries of expression, and situates AI within the broader question of what it means to be human in an increasingly posthuman world.

Stiles’ contributions have earned her recognition from the Sigg Art Prize, Lumen Prize, Prix Ars Electronica and Future.Art.Awards, as well as the attention of MoMA, Artforum, Christie’s, NPR, The Washington Post, and Poets & Writers. Her work has been exhibited and performed internationally, from Lincoln Center and the V&A to Art Basel, Kunsthalle Zurich, Outernet London, and Tokyo’s iconic Shibuya Crossing. Collaborations with global brands including Gucci and Bang & Olufsen have raised poetry’s profile in contemporary creative culture.

A graduate of Harvard and Oxford, co-founder of literary collective theVERSEverse, and longtime poetry mentor to humanoid android BINA48, Stiles lives near New York City with her husband and studio partner, Kris Bones.

Image credit: Photo by Kris Bones