danilo machado

Born in Medellín, Colombia, danilo machado is a poet, curator, and critic living on occupied land interested in language’s potential for revealing tenderness, erasure, and relationships to power. A 2020-2021 Poetry Project Emerge-Surface-Be Fellow, their writing has been featured in Art in America, Art Papers, Hyperallergic, Movements Journal, Poem-A-Day, The Recluse, GenderFail, No, Dear, Long River Review, and TAYO Literary Magazine, among others. They are the author of the collection This is your receipt and is not a ticket for travel (Faint Line Press, 2023) and the chaplets wavy in its heat and to be elsewhere (Ghost City Press Summer Series, 2022/2023). danilo is Producer of Public Programs at Brooklyn Museum and with Em Marie Kohl, co-hosts the monthly queer reading, publication, and workshop series exquisites. danilo is a founding member of the People’s Saturday School and has previously organized with Funders for LGBTQ Issues, Lambda Legal, and Familia: Trans Queer Liberation Movement. They are working to show up with care for their communities.