Matthew Ryan Shelton is a poet, musician, and translator. His poetry and translations have appeared in English as well as Irish Gaelic, in such publications as The Cincinnati Review, Abridged, Poetry Proper, Asymptote, An Gael, Mantis, Causeway/Cabhsair, The Swarthmore Review, and Parhelion. His poem “Talus” was nominated for Best of the Net 2018. He is a student of Marcus Wise of Minneapolis, MN, tracing his lineage back to Ustad Dayam Ali Qadri of the Farrukhabad and Delhi schools of tabla. He lives in Philadelphia, PA.