Prithvi Varatharajan is a poet, essayist, and sometimes literary audio producer who lives in Melbourne. His début collection of poems and prose, Entries, was published in 2020 by Cordite Books. He has had poetry published widely in Australian journals, and his essays have featured in such publications as the Sydney Review of Books, Meanjin, Adaptation, Cultural Studies Review, and Peril. Prithvi holds an interdisciplinary PhD on ABC Radio National’s Poetica, and was a recipient of a 2020 Emerging Critics Fellowship at the Sydney Review of Books.