Sasha Stiles is a first-generation Kalmyk-American poet, language artist, and AI researcher working at the nexus of text and technology, known for pioneering experiments with generative literature and blockchain poetics. Her practice refracts heritage and tradition through disruptive studies of creativity and consciousness, exploring human voice in a machine age. Stiles has been recognized by MoMA, Art Basel, Christie’s, NPR, Artforum and Gucci, and received the first AI in Art Award of Distinction from the Prix Ars Electronica. A graduate of Harvard and Oxford, cofounder of theVERSEverse, and poetry mentor to humanoid android BINA48, Stiles lives near New York City with her husband and studio partner, Kris Bones.