SASHA STILES is a poet, language artist, AI researcher, and author of the "instant techno-classic" Technelegy, as well as co-founder of theVERSEverse, an experimental literary collective. Widely recognized as a pioneer of algorithmic authorship, blockchain poetics and publishing innovation, Stiles has been featured in Art Forum, Gucci, Design Wanted, Cool Hunting, and The Washington Post, and became the first writer to bring AI-powered literature to a major auction house when her poem," COMPLETION: When it’s just you," sold at Christie’s in 2022. Recent honors include the Optimism AI Award, Future Art Award, Lumen Prize shortlist, nominations for the Forward Prize, Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Stiles is a frequent speaker at such events and venues as Art Basel and The Brooklyn Museum and has exhibited widely in solo and shows as well as public art installations around the globe. Stiles has served as Poetry Mentor to the humanoid android BINA48 since 2018.