Eliot Cardinaux is a neuroqueer poet, pianist, composer, translator, and publisher working at the edges of the lyric and improvised music. The author of seven poetry collections, including On the Long Blue Night (Dos Madres, 2023), he has produced and appeared on over a dozen albums of original music as well, including, most recently, Imminence, with percussionist Gary Fieldman. His poems and translations have appeared in journals such as California Quarterly, Tupelo Quarterly, Meridian, Jacket2, Solstice, and Spoon River Poetry Review. Cardinaux is also the founding editor of The Bodily Press. He lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.