Vidhu Aggarwal’s poetry and multimedia practices engage with world-building, video, and graphic media, drawing mythic schemas from popular culture, science, and ancient texts. Their poetry book, The Trouble with Humpadori (2016), imagines a cosmic mythological space for marginalized transnational subjects. Avatara, a chapbook from Portable @Yo-Yo Labs Press, is situated in a post-apocalyptic gaming world where A.I.’s play at being gods. They have published in the Poetry, Boston Review, Black Warrior Review, Aster(ix) Journal, Poemelon, Leonardo, LARB, and The Georgia Review among other journals. Aggarwal is currently engaging in a “cloud poetics,” as a way of thinking about personal, collective, and digital archives as a collaborate process with comic artists, dancers, and video artists. Daughter Isotope appeared with Operating System in 2021 (daughterisotope.com). A Djerassi resident and Kundiman fellow, they are the Theodore Bruce and Barbara Lawrence Alfond Professor of Literature at Rollins College.