Indran Amirthanayagam is a poet, editor, publisher, translator, youtube host and diplomat. He has published 28 books and translations. He worked for his adoptive country, the United States, on diplomatic assignments in Africa, Asia, Europe and North and South America. Amirthanayagam produced a unique record in 2020 publishing three poetry collections written in three different languages. He writes in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Haitian Creole. In music, he recorded Rankont Dout. He edits the Beltway Poetry Quarterly; writes indranmx.substack.com, https://indranamirthanayagam.blogspot.com; a weekly poem for Haiti en Marche and El Acento; has received fellowships from the Foundation for the Contemporary Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, The US/Mexico Fund for Culture and the Macdowell Colony. He is the 2025 Matwaala Poet of Honor, and received the IFLAC World Poet/Poeta Mundial 2022. Indran hosts The Poetry Channel https://youtube.com/user/indranam. Recent books include El bosque de deleites fratricidas, Seer, and The Runner’s Almanac. Indran publishes at Beltway Editions.