Samantha Hinds is a conceptual performance artist, director, and writer who works across sound, words, movement, voice, and film. She is a 2025-2026 finalist for the Poetry Project’s Emerge-Surface-Be fellowship. She recently curated the DADA x DADA poetry series, supported by the Poetry Foundation, as well as CONTACT, a sound-poem group performance art program in New York City. Her essays appear in Ethics and The New Inquiry with recent poems in The Baffler, b l u s h lit, Brazenhead Review, The Reservoir (Autonomedia), Abobo Zine, and Poetry Project Newsletter, as well as the sound-poem demo “Uzu” (2025). Samantha is also an expert guest lecturer in the field of critical technology research with experience tracking disinformation and political violence. She sits on the advisory board of the Georgetown Law Center for Privacy & Technology.