Stiles, Sasha: - A first-generation Kalmyk-American poet, artist and creative strategist working at the intersection of text and technology. Her practice seeks to decipher the hidden language of the dawning Novacene in projects that merge biological and mechanical, analog and digital, historical and modern, exploring modes of transhuman communication and envisioning transcendent possibility. Stiles has been nominated for awards including the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net; featured in the official Times Square app on Virtual New Year's Eve and on the runway at New York Fashion Week. A graduate of Harvard and Oxford, she lives just outside New York City.