Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe is a poet, pacifist and fabulist. Founder of the Play It Forward Fellowships, she is poetry editor at Skein Press and Fallow Media, and contributing editor with The Stinging Fly. She is the recipient of a Next Generation Artist Award in Literature from the Arts Council of Ireland and currently serves on the Expert Advisory Committee of Culture Ireland as well as the Advisory Board of Diversifying Irish Poetry. Auguries of a Minor God, her first collection, was published with Faber & Faber in 2021.