Rajiv Mohabir is a memoirist, translator, and the author of five collections of poems, most recently Seabeast. His books have been awarded with Foreword Indies Gold and the Eric Hoffer Medal Provocateur. He’s also been honored as a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN Open Book Award, the Lambda Literary Award, the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction, and as both a second place winner and finalist for the Guyana Prize for Literature. His translations have won the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets. Mohabir teaches at the University of Colorado Boulder.