Aditi Machado is the author of three books of poetry from Nightboat—Material Witness (2024), Emporium (2020), and Some Beheadings (2017)—translator of Baptiste Gaillard's In the Realm of Motes (Roof, 2025) and Farid Tali's Prosopopoeia (Action, 2016). Her writing appears or is forthcoming in Annulet, BOMB, Chicago Review, Fence, Jacket2, Lana Turner, and Volt, among other journals. She works as an advisory editor for The Paris Review and associate professor at the Univeristy of Cincinnati. This is her website.