Rajnesh Chakrapani

Rajnesh Chakrapani is a poet, translator, and filmmaker. He holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and has lived in Romania, Liberia, and Myanmar. He currently teaches as an adjunct professor at the University of Iowa. His book of poetry and images, The Repetition of Exceptional Weeks, was published by Fomite in 2023. His chapbook Brown People Who Speak English came from Guesthouse Press. He has won a PEN/Heim Translation award and the David Hamilton Prize from The Iowa Review. For Speculative City, he contributed two poems to Issue 1: Grotesque, 'The Integral' and 'Supplementary Performances in the Snow'.