Carolina Hotchandani was born in Brazil and has lived in most regions of the United Stated before settling in Omaha, Nebraska, where she is a Goodrich Associate Professor of English. She earned her B.A. in English Literature from Brown University and Ph.D. in English Literature from Northwestern University. Her debut poetry collection The Book Eaters won the 2023 Perugia Press Prize for first and second poetry books and a 2024 Nebraska Book Award and was featured in Poets and Writers Magazine‘s “Performing the Future: Our Nineteenth Annual Look at Debut Poets.” She has received fellowships from the Nebraska Arts Council, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference (Rona Jaffe Foundation Awards), Community of Writers, Tin House, and the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in The Atlantic, Adroit, AGNI, AQR, Beloit Poetry Journal, Cincinnati Review, The Missouri Review, Poetry Northwest, Prairie Schooner, and Smartish Pace, among other journals.