Rajnesh Chakrapani is a poet, translator, and filmmaker who holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He is the author of The Repetition of Exceptional Weeks (Fomite, 2023) and the chapbook Brown People Who Speak English (Guesthouse Press). He is a winner of a PEN/Heim Translation award and the David Hamilton Prize from the Iowa Review. His work is placed in Asymptote, Lana Turner, The Margins, Speculative City, Triquarterly, Literary North, Sequestrum, and crevice.ro.