Diann Blakely Visiting Poet: Aditi Machado

The University of Georgia Creative Writing Program presents a reading and book signing with Aditi Machado, the program’s 2024 Diann Blakely Visiting Poet. This free event is open to the public. Books will be available for purchase, and light refreshments will be served. 

Aditi Machado is a poet, translator, and essayist. Her second book of poems Emporium (Nightboat, 2020) received the James Laughlin Award. Her other works include the poetry collection Some Beheadings (Nightboat, 2017), a translation from the French of Farid Tali’s Prosopopoeia (Action Books, 2016), and several chapbooks, the most recent of which are a long poem called now (Sputnik & Fizzle, 2020) and an essay titled The End (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2020). Machado’s work appears in journals like BOMB, Lana Turner, Volt, The Chicago Review, Western Humanities Review, and Jacket2. A former Poetry Editor for Asymptote (2011-2019), she works as an Associate Professor at the University of Cincinnati.

With gratitude to the Georgia Review for stepping in as bookseller!