Khôra Martel is a trans and queer philosopher and poet. They are currently Director of the concentration in Ancient Philosophy within the Master's Program in Philosophy, and a Senior Research Fellow, at the Global Centre for Advanced Studies. They have taught at NYU, CUNY, the University of Chicago, and the University of Tennessee. A graduate of Bard College at Simon’s Rock, they received two doctorates — in Religion & Visual Culture and in Comparative Literature, with a focus in philosophy — from the University of Chicago. Their work reaches for the lonely spaces which are neither philosophy nor literature, neither scholarship nor fiction. They are interested in the alien, in wildness, in the reception and rejection of classical thought, and in horror, as well as issues within critical theory, ontology, psychoanalysis, theory-fiction and the global Weird, Gothic, and modernist traditions. Their writing has appeared or is forthcoming in various popular and academic outlets. They live in Brooklyn.