Karan Kapoor is an MFA candidate at Virginia Tech. They have been awarded or placed for the James Hearst Poetry Prize, Frontier Global Poetry Prize,and Bellevue Literary Review Prize. A finalist for the Tusculum Review and Iron Horse Literary Reviewchapbook prizes, their poems have appeared (or are forthcoming) in AGNI, Shenandoah, Cincinnati Review, North American Review, and elsewhere. Their fiction is forthcoming in JOYLAND and the other side of hope. Their translations  have appeared in The Offing and The Los Angeles Review. They are the Editor-in-Chief of ONLY POEMS (onlypoems.net). You can find them at: karankapoor.net