Shiv Kotecha is a writer and editor living in New York. He is the author of four books of poetry: The Switch, EXTRIGUE, Outfits, and Paint the Rock. His writing appears in publications including 4Columns, Aperture, BOMB, Cultured, frieze, The Nation, and The Poetry Project Newsletter. For the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant, he co-edits Cookie Jar, a pamphlet series of experimental arts writing. He serves as Faculty in the Writing Discipline for Bard MFA—Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts.