Indran Amirthanayagam, Sri Lankan-American poet-diplomat, essayist and translator, writes in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Haitian Creole. He has published 19 poetry collections, including The Migrant States, Coconuts on Mars (Paperwall Publishers/Poetrywala), The Elephants of Reckoning (Winner 1994 Paterson Poetry Prize), Uncivil War and The Splintered Face: Tsunami Poems.  In music, he recorded Rankont Dout. He edits The Beltway Poetry Quarterly; writes; writes a poetry column for Haiti en Marche; directs the Poetry Channel. He has received fellowships from the Foundation for the Contemporary Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, The US/Mexico Fund for Culture and the Macdowell Colony.