RAJIV MOHABIR is a poet, memoirist, translator, and the author of four books of poetry, including Cutlish, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and a recipient of the Eric Hoffer Medal Provocateur. His poetry and nonfiction works have been named finalists for the 2022 PEN/America Open Book Award, the Lambda Literary Award in poetry and nonfiction, the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction, and both second place and finalist for the Guyana Prize for Literature in 2022 (poetry and memoir, respectively). His translations have won the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the American Academy of Poets in 2020. Whale Aria: Poems (Four Way Books) is Mohabir’s fourth collection. He is currently an assistant professor of poetry at the University of Colorado, Boulder.