Aditi Machado is a poet and translator from Bangalore, India. Her first book Some Beheadings (Nightboat, 2017) won The Believer Poetry Award in 2018. Her other work includes a translation, from the French, of Farid Tali’s Prosopopoeia (Action, 2016), a chapbook called Prologue | Emporium to appear from Garden-Door Press in Fall 2018, and poetry (forthcoming) in Western Humanities Review, Seedings, Volt, and Lana Turner Journal, among other journals. She is the poetry editor of Asymptote, and the Visiting Poet-in-Residence at Washington University in St. Louis.