Quinn Latimer is a California-born poet, critic, and editor whose work often explores feminist economies of writing, reading, and image production. She is the author of Like a Woman: Essays, Readings, Poems (Sternberg Press, 2017), Sarah Lucas: Describe This Distance (Mousse Publishing, 2013), Film as a Form of Writing: Quinn Latimer Talks to Akram Zaatari (WIELS/Motto Books, 2013), and Rumored Animals (Dream Horse Press, 2012).

Her writings and readings have been featured and exhibited widely, including at REDCAT, Los Angeles; Chisenhale Gallery, London; Radio Athènes, Athens; the Poetry Project, New York; the Venice Architecture Biennale; and Sharjah Biennial 13. Her essays, poems, and more hybrid texts have appeared in Artforum, Bookforum, Frieze, The Paris Review, Texte zur Kunst, The White Review, and elsewhere, as well as in many artist books, museum monographs, and critical anthologies.

She is the editor or co-editor of myriad books, among them Amazonia: Anthology as Cosmology (Sternberg Press, 2021); Simone Forti: The Bear in the Mirror (Walther König, 2019); The documenta 14 Reader and documenta 14: Daybook (both Prestel, 2017); Stories, Myths, Ironies, and Other Songs: Conceived, Directed, Edited, and Produced by M. Auder (Sternberg Press, 2014); Paul Sietsema: Interviews on Films and Works (Sternberg Press, 2012); and Pamela Rosenkranz: No Core (JRP-Ringier, 2012).

Previously, Latimer was editor-in-chief of publications for documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel. She was also the founder of The Printed Room, a space for literary minded exhibitions and performances, at SALTS, Basel. She is now Head of the MA program at Institut Kunst Gender Natur, in Basel, where, with Chus Martínez, she organizes a semiannual series of symposia on questions of gender, language, performance, and artistic practice. She is curator of SIREN (some poetics), which opens at the Amant Foundation, New York, in September 2022.