Calla Henkel is an American novelist, playwright, director and artist currently living in LA. She has staged plays at Volksbühne Berlin, The Whitney Museum of Art, as well as at New Theater, the experimental theatre space she founded and programmed in Berlin from 2013-2015. Her art writing has been published in periodicals such as Texte zur Kunst, Spike, Mousse, and others. Her artistic work with Max Pitegoff has been exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide. Her debut novel, Other People's Clothes, was published in 2021, and her second novel, Scrap, was published in 2024 and have both been sold in multiple translation territories.