Mary Katharine Tramontana

Mary Katharine Tramontana is a journalist, photographer, poet, and the author of Serious Pleasures: Poems of Lust and Longing (2024), and Do not write poems likening his body to god (2025). A former sexuality research assistant at the Kinsey Institute, she has a Master of Arts in English Literature, Language and Culture from Freie Universität Berlin, and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Gender Studies from Indiana University. Her writing on queer feminist sexual politics and culture in The New York Times, Esquire, Playboy, and others asks how we may live our lives differently. She lives in Berlin.