Natasha Tiniacos is a poet, literary translator, and scholar from Maracaibo, Venezuela. She is the author of Against the Regime of the Fluent/ Contra el régimen de lo fluido translated by Rebeca Alderete Baca (Ugly Duckling Presse), Historia privada de un etcétera (Libros del fuego), Mujer a fuego lento (Equinoccio) as well as the Spanish translator of Gabriel Dozal’s The Border Simulator. Her poetry and translations appear in The Baffler and Fence. She has received fellowships from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and the U.S. Department of State Office of Cultural Affairs. She has worked as a poet in residence in Campo Air (Uruguay), the International Writing Program of the University of Iowa, and Vermont Studio Center. She holds an MFA from New York University and is a Ph.D. candidate at The Graduate Center.