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OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | is a poet, translator, and essayist from Bangalore, India. Her second book of poems, Emporium (Nightboat, 2020), received the Academy of American Poets James Laughlin Award. Her other works include the poetry collection Some Beheadings (Nightboat, 2017), winner of the Believer Book Award; and a translation from the French of Farid Tali’s Prosopopoeia (Action Books, 2016). Machado’s work appears in such journals as Chicago Review, Jacket2, Lana Turner, Volt, and Western Humanities Review. A former Poetry Editor for Asymptote, she teaches at the University of Cincinnati.

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