Esther Kondo Heller (b. 1993 Berlin) is a poet, literary critic, experimental sound- and filmmaker. They are a Barbican Young Poet, an Obsidian Foundation Fellow, a Ledbury Critic, and an Image Text Ithaca Junior Fellow. Their films have screened at Berlinale Forum Expanded, Third Horizon, Alchemy Moving Image Festival, ICA London, amongst other places.
They are currently a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at Harvard University, where they are working on transnational Black poetics and translating the poetry of Raja Lubinetzki. Their forthcoming debut poetry collection, Ar:range:ments, will be available with Fonograf Editions in March 2025.