Shiv Kotecha is a poet and critic. He is the author of EXTRIGUE (Make Now, 2015), OUTFITS (Troll Thread, 2013), Paint The Rock (Troll Thread, 2011) and THE SWITCH (Wonder, 2018). He is currently a PhD candidate in NYU English, finishing a dissertation titled Decomposition as Explanation: The Forms of Duration from Poe to Post-Conceptualism.