Tracey Warr was born in London and lives in southwest France. She worked at the Institute of Contemporary Arts and the Arts Council of England. She was the co-curator of the Edge biennales. She was programme lead in Fine Art at Oxford Brookes University and in Arts Management at Dartington College of Arts. She worked as a senior lecturer at Glasgow School of Art, Scotland; Bauhaus University, Germany; Piet Zwart Institute, Netherlands; and Saint Francis University (US) in France. She established the Arts and Place and Poetics of Imagination MAs at Dartington Arts School.Her books and essays on contemporary art have been published by Phaidon, Routledge, The Barbican Gallery, Tate, Palgrave Macmillan, Intellect, Manchester University Press and Performance Research journal. She has also published five historical novels and a future fiction novella.