Aditi Machado is the author of THE END (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2020), SOME BEHEADINGS (Nightboat Books, 2017), and the translator of Farid Tali's PROSOPOPOEIA (Action Books, 2016). Her poetry and criticism also appear in chapbook form as well as in journals like Lana Turner, VOLT, Chicago Review, Western Humanities Review, and Jacket2. Her second poetry collection Emporium (forthcoming) recently received the James Laughlin Award. Machado works as an Assistant Professor at University of Cincinnati.