Ariel Yelen is the author of the collection of poems I Was Working, published by Princeton University Press in 2024. Her poems have been published in Social Text, Mahkzin, The New Republic, BOMB, and elsewhere. She received a 2023-2024 Creative & Performing Arts Fulbright to Greece, has taught poetry and interdisciplinary courses for the School for Poetic Computation, Poetry Society of America, and other schools. As a former editor for the NYC-based publishing collaborative Futurepoem Books, she founded their digital space futurefeed.