A Catalog Of Future Mercies by Serena Chopra

Serena Chopra is a writer, dancer, filmmaker, and performance artist. She is a recipient of an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship and is a MacDowell Fellow, a Kundiman Fellow, a RedLine Artist In-Residence and a Fulbright Scholar. A Catalog of Future Mercies (Graywolf Press, 2026) is her third book.

Aditi Machado’s books include three poetry collections from Nightboat, Material Witness, Emporium, and Some Beheadings; as well as two book-length translations, Baptiste Gaillard’s In the Realm of Motes (Roof) and Farid Tali’s Prosopopoeia (Action). A recipient of the James Laughlin and The Believer Poetry Awards, she serves as an advisory poetry editor for The Paris Review and teaches at the University of Cincinnati.

Divya Victor (b. 1983) is a Tamil-American poet, essayist, and educator. She is the author of CURB (Nightboat Books), which won the 2022 PEN America Open Book Award and the 2022 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Divya is the author of KITH (Fence Books/ Book*hug); Scheingleichheit: Drei Essays (Merve Verlag, trans. Lena Schmidt), NATURAL SUBJECTS (Trembling Pillow), UNSUB (Insert Blanc), and THINGS TO DO WITH YOUR MOUTH (Les Figues). Her work has been collected in numerous venues, including BOMB, the New Museum’s The Animated Reader, Crux: Journal of Conceptual Writing, The Best American Experimental Writing, POETRY, The Yale Review, American Poetry Review, The Atlantic, The New York Times, W.W. Norton’s The Seagull Reader, and boundary2. Her next book, KIN, a collection of essays, received a 2025 Creative Capital Award and is due out from Graywolf in 2027. She is Associate Professor of English and Writing at Michigan State University, where she directs the Creative Writing program.