Aditi Machado is the author of the book Some Beheadings, which won The Believer Poetry Award in 2018, and the chapbooks Prologue | Emporium, This Touch, Route: Marienbad, and The Robing of the Bride. She translated Farid Tali’s Prosopopoeia from the French. She is the visiting poet-in-residence at Washington University in St. Louis.