Aditya Shankar is an Indian poet, flash fiction author, and translator. His poems, fiction, and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in The Ghost Parachute, Unbroken Journal, Egophobia, The Expanded Field, 300,000 Years of Us, Otoliths, The Queen Mob's Teahouse, Modern Poetry in Translation, Armarolla, Kitaab and nominated for Best of the Net. His books include After Seeing (2006), Party Poopers (2014), and XXL (Dhauli Books, 2018). He lives in Bangalore, India.