Honey Protocols

Monika Rinck's poems, essays and translations have appeared under a range of imprints since 1998. In 2012 she was awarded the Peter Huchel Prize for Honigprotokolle. In 2019, a survey of her work to date was published by S. Fischer Verlag under the title Champagner fuer die Pferde, and kookbooks published her fifth volume of poetry, Alle Tueren. Her latest collection, Hoellenfahrt und Entenstaat, was published by kookbooks in 2024. Since April 2023 she has been teaching Literary Writing at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne, having previously taught at the Institute of Language Arts at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Among other awards, she has received the Ernst Jandl Prize and the Kleist Prize. In November 2024 she delivered the Zurich Poetics Lectures, and in January 2025 she held the DAAD Chair of Contemporary Poetics at New York University. For nearly three decades, she has collected curious coinages and linguistic lapses, mailing them out to subscribers in regular instalments (www.begriffsstudio.de). She lives in Berlin and Cologne.