Timothy Morton is a professor and Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University. They are the author of 25 books including Hell (Columbia, 2025) and Hyperobjects (Minnesota, 2013). Morton is the author of the libretto Time, Time, Time, an opera by Jennifer Walshe (2019), and of numerous artworks including We Are the Asteroid with Justin Guariglia (2019), Come Fast from the Dark with Andrew Melchior (2024), and This Huge Sunlit Abyss From The Future Right There Next To You with Björk (2015). In 2018 Morton co-wrote and appeared with Jeff Bridges in Living in the Future’s Past, directed by Susan Kucera.