Eva H.D.
Tribes’ International artist-in-residence Eva H.D. is a MacDowell Fellow and author of several poetry collections, including Rotten Perfect Mouth (2015), Shiner (2016), Light Wounds (2021), and The Natural Hustle (2023). Her poem “Bonedog” was featured in Charlie Kaufman’s film I’m Thinking of Ending Things (2021), and she won the 2015 Montreal International Poetry Prize for her poem “38 Michigans.” Her book of translations of the Greek poet C.P. Cavafy is forthcoming from Invisible Publishing in 2027; until then, her translations are available on her Substack.
Most recently, Eva H.D. has collaborated with Charlie Kaufman on two short films: Jackals and Fireflies (2023) and How to Shoot a Ghost (2025), serving as writer and director, respectively. How to Shoot a Ghost premiered at the 2025 Venice Film Festival, won Best Short Narrative at the 26th Annual Woodstock Film Festival in New York, and has toured the festival circuit worldwide. Following her acting debut in Jackals and Fireflies, she continues to expand her artistic range on screen as a 1980s ghost punk poetess in director Fil Ieropoulos and writer Foivos Dousos’ mordant phantasmagoria Uchronia (2026), a ΦΥΤΑ / FYTA production, which premiered at the Berlinale in February 2026.
BOOKS
FEATURED | The Natural Hustle (2023)
Deeply attuned to the cadence of life, the poems in The Natural Hustle offer provocative, intimate snapshots. They explore the bewildering experience of living—precisely locating unexpected truths. Ingenious, original, surprising, here is a one-of-a-kind poetic voice.
More info here.
FILMS
IN OTHER NEWS
HOW TO SHOOT A GHOST (OST)
Written and produced by Ella van der Woude
Recorded in Amsterdam, 2025
Mixed by Tim Schakel
Mastered by Stephan Mathieu
Musicians
Hristo Goleminov (tenor & alto saxophone, bass clarinet), Brent Arnold (cello), Alistair Sung (cello), Nicky Hustinx (cymbals), Ella van der Woude (piano, synthesizers)
Voices
Narrator: Eva H.D.
Ghosts: Jessie Buckley as Anthi and Josef Akiki as Rateb
Album cover
Film Stills by Michał Dymek. Polaroid by Agata Grzybowska. Graphic design by Maaike Kuiper.
2026 February 27 JUST RELEASED | How to Shoot a Ghost’s original score by composer Ella van der Woude is now available for your listening pleasure:. Take home a 12" Vinyl Record and/or download the Digital Album. here and here.
“When the producers reached out about scoring a short film called How to Shoot a Ghost, directed by Charlie Kaufman, I honestly assumed it was someone starting out who simply shared his name. I didn’t know he had directed another short before this one, and the whole situation felt too unlikely to be real. By the time I came on board, the edit was nearly finished, so things moved quickly, and I started working soon after our first Zoom meeting.
Eva H.D. (writer) and Charlie Kaufman worked closely together throughout our process, and our weekly meetings often made me feel more like I was in a Kaufman film than scoring one; their dynamic was funny, and the circumstances in which we met – different time zones, freezing screens, life happening in the background – added an extra layer of absurdity.
A film always has its own will, and you have to figure out what it wants. The main challenge in scoring this film was shaping and punctuating the music that appears almost continuously. It took me a moment to understand how much the film’s narration would rely on the score. I intuitively felt like keeping a lot of open space for the voice-over to unfold, but Charlie and Eva rightly encouraged me to create something far more propulsive and illustrative than what I would naturally write. That’s something I really appreciate about film scoring: you end up making music that still sounds like you, yet takes you somewhere you wouldn’t have reached on your own..” — Ella van der Woude
UPCOMING SCREENINGS & EVENTS
2026, March 20 FRIDAY 6.30 p.m. | Bad Waitress + Bibi Club + bikebike + Readings by Melissa Auf der Maur + Eva H.D. + Farhia Tato – Wavelength Music Festival + Conference at St. Anne’s, Toronto, Canada
PAST SCREENINGS & EVENTS
2026, February 17 TUESDAY 9:00 p.m. | Film screening of Uchronia (2026) at the Berlinale. Location: Kino Betonhalle at Silent Green, Berlin, Germany.
2026, February 20 FRIDAY 7:00 p.m.—9:30 p.m. | Eva H.D. in conversation with writer and director Charlie Kaufman, following the screening of a remastered 35mm print of his film Synecdoche, New York (2008). Location: Yale University, 53 Wall Street New Haven, CT 06511. This event is free and open to the public.
2026, February 21 SATURDAY 3:30 p.m. | Film screening of Uchronia (2026) at the Berlinale. Location: Kino Betonhalle at Silent Green, Berlin, Germany.
INTERVIEWS & PRESS
2025, October 26 | The Next Best Picture Podcast – Interview With “How To Shoot A Ghost” Director Charlie Kaufman & Writer Eva H.D.
2023, June 25 | Poetry is Bread Podcast Episode 22 with Poet & Writer Eva H.D. Bowery Poetry by Bowery Poetry.
2021, April 29 | Poetry Month – Eva H.D. Windsor Public Library by Windsor Public Library.
2015, October 19 | 12 or 20 (second series) questions with Eva H.D. – rob mclennan’s blog by rob mclennan