Kai Ihns is the author of two books of poems, Of (The Elephants/Fonograf Editions, 2024), and sundaey (Propeller Books, 2020), as well as a number of pamphlets and chapbooks. She also works as an editor and researcher, and has held roles at venues including the Neubauer Collegium at the University of Chicago, The Paris Review, Conjunctions, and Chicago Review. Her research focuses on forms of reflexivity and orientational prosody in contemporary experimental poetry and film. Other projects include The Year, a chapbook press.