Charlotte Warsen (1984) was born and raised in the Ruhr Region and studied Painting and English Literature at Düsseldorf, Cologne and Joensuu (Finland). She is currently preparing her doctoral dissertation on the politics of visual arts, while simultaneously working as a teacher at a school in Berlin. Her works have been featured in the printed and online magazines edit, zerikommasieben, randnummer and in the anthologies Sibyllen & Propheten, Spitzen and Aus Mangel an Beweisen. Her debut poetry collection Vom Speerwurf zu Pferde (From Spear to Horses) was released by Luxbooks in 2014. Warsen has published the collective volume titled Kulturtechnik Malen (Painting as Cultural Technique) in collaboration with Meret Kupczyk and Ludger Schwarte. Her sophomore poetry book Plage (Plague) was recently published by kookbooks. Her poem “Pledge” was originally included in Speerwurf zu Pferde; her other poems in this anthology were first published in Plage.