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Aditi Machado's third volume of poetry, Material Witness, is forthcoming from Nightboat Books in October 2024. Her other works include the poetry collections Emporium (Nightboat, 2020) and Some Beheadings (Nightboat, 2017), a translation from the French of Farid Tali’s novel Prosopopoeia (Action, 2016), the essay pamphlet The End (Ugly Duckling, 2020); and several poetry chapbooks. Machado’s writing appears in journals like BOMB, The Brooklyn Rail, Chicago Review, Lana Turner, Volt, Western Humanities Review, and Jacket2, among others. A recipient of the James Laughlin Award (for Emporium) and The Believer Poetry Award (for Some Beheadings), Machado serves as an Advisory Poetry Editor at The Paris Review and works as an associate professor at the University of Cincinnati.

Bianca Rae Messinger is a poet and translator living and working in Buffalo, NY. She is the author of the chapbooks “The Love of God” (Inpatient Press, 2016) and “parallel bars” (Center for Book Arts, 2021) and translator of “In the Jungle There is Much to DO” [comunidad del sur [mauricio gatti], Berlin Biennale, 2020] among others. Her book pleasureis amiracle is out in January 2025 from Nightboat.

Christopher Kondrich is a poet and writer whose third book, Tread Upon, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in 2026. He is the author of Valuing (University of Georgia Press, 2019), selected by Jericho Brown as a winner of the National Poetry Series, Library Journal as a Best Poetry Book of 2019, and as a finalist for The Believer Book Award, as well as Contrapuntal (Parlor Press, 2013). He is also the co-editor of Creature Needs: Writers Respond to the Science of Animal Conservation (University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming January 2025). His poetry and essays appear widely in such venues as the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, AGNI, The Believer, The Kenyon Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, New England Review, The New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, TriQuarterly, and The Yale Review. He is currently a faculty member for Eastern Oregon University’s low-residency MFA in Creative and Environmental Writing, and an Associate Editor for the literary magazine 32 Poems.