Karthik Purushothaman is a poet from Chennai, India, who now lives in New Jersey. Currently writing his first book of poems, Karthik has been nominated for the Pushcart Prizes and Best New Poets anthologies, was a special mention in Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019, and has had poems and essays in Boulevard, Hyperallergic, Rattle, Subtropics, The Common, The Rumpus, The Margins, EVENT, and Writers Resist: The Anthology 2018, among other places.