Timothy Morton is Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University and Director of the Cool America Foundation. Morton is the author of 25 books, translated 47 times into 20 languages; and the author of the libretto for the opera Time Time Time by Jennifer Walshe. Morton co-wrote and appears in Living in the Future’s Past, a 2018 film about global warming with Jeff Bridges. Morton has collaborated with Laurie Anderson, Björk, Jennifer Walshe, Susan Kucera, Hrafnhildur Arnadottir, Sabrina Scott, Adam McKay, Jeff Bridges, Olafur Eliasson, Pharrell Williams and Justin Guariglia. In 2014 Morton gave the Wellek Lectures in Theory at UC Irvine.

Morton has published Hell: In Search of a Christian Ecology (Columbia, 2024), The Stuff of Life (Bloomsbury, 2023), All Art Is Ecological (Penguin, 2021), Spacecraft (Bloomsbury, 2021), Hyposubjects: On Becoming Human (Open Humanities, 2021), Being Ecological (Penguin, 2018), Humankind: Solidarity with Nonhuman People (Verso, 2017), Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence (Columbia, 2016), Nothing: Three Inquiries in Buddhism (Chicago, 2015), Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World (Minnesota, 2013), Realist Magic: Objects, Ontology, Causality (Open Humanities, 2013), The Ecological Thought (Harvard, 2010), Ecology without Nature (Harvard, 2007), 8 other books and 300 essays on philosophy, ecology, literature, music, art, architecture, design and food.