Ry Cook (they/she) is a Brooklyn-based poet/performer who was recently awarded the Belladonna* Nonbinary Poetics residency. Their work has been published in the New Republic, Baffler, Brooklyn Rail, Peel Lit, BOMB, Iterant, Archway Editions, the Poetry Project Footnotes Series, and others. Their first chapbook, Freak of Nature, was released through Choo Choo Press this past year. Their second, ASUSHUNAMIR, comes out in Fall 2026 through Blue Bag Press. They teach writing at Pratt Institute, and help manage programs at the Academy of American Poets. They also co-run the "Unnamed Reading Series" with poet Aiden Farrell.