Ann Cotten is a writer, translator, and researcher. She is currently working on her PhD, an Aesthetics of Misuseability, at the Peter Szondi Institute in Berlin and was awarded a Junior Fellowship at the International Research Center for Cultural Studies Vienna, thanks to which she is currently conducting research at the University of Hawaii. Cotten’s English language work is published by Broken Dimanche Press and includes I, Coleoptile, (2013) and Lather In Heaven (2016). Her most recent book in German is the science fiction prose collection Lyophilia (2019). She has translated books by Joe Wenderoth, Isabel Waidner, Rosmarie Waldrop, Legacy Russell, and Adam Green.