Ada Smailbegović is a poet and theorist born in Sarajevo and currently living in Brooklyn. She is an Associate Professor of English at Brown University. Her writing explores relations between poetics, ecologies of displacement, nonhuman forms of materiality, histories of description, and the natural sciences. Ada is the author of two books Poetics of Liveliness: Molecules, Fibers, Tissues, Clouds (Columbia UP, 2021) and The Cloud Notebook (Litmus, 2023).